US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on April 1 for "Hybrid cell-based device, layout, and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,657, issued on April 1, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Hybrid cell-based device, layout, and method" was invented by Yu-Xuan Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Wei Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Te-Hsin Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hou-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuan-Lun Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a first plurality of active areas extending in a first direction and having a first pitch in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a second plurality of active areas extendin...