US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on April 15 for "Method and system for generating layout diagram including wiring arrangement" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,379, issued on April 15, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and system for generating layout diagram including wiring arrangement" was invented by Fong-Yuan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chin-Chou Liu (Jhubei, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Meng-Kai Hsu (Xinfeng Township, Taiwan), Pin-Dai Sue (Tainan, Taiwan), Po-Hsiang Huang (Tainan, Taiwan), Yi-Kan Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Chi-Yu Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Jung-Chou Tsai (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (of generating a layout diagram of a wire routing arrangement in a multi-patterning cont...