ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,597, issued on April 22, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor structure and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Wei-Lun Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes: a substrate and a fin protruding from the substrate. The fin comprises a first semiconductive layer over the substrate, a second semiconductive layer over the first semiconductive layer, and a dielectric layer disposed between the first semiconductive layer and the second semiconductive layer and electrically isolated from the first semiconductive layer and...