US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on April 29 for "Spacer structure for semiconductor device and method for forming the same" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,722, issued on April 29, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Spacer structure for semiconductor device and method for forming the same" was invented by Han-Yu Lin (Nantou County, Taiwan), Jhih-Rong Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yen-Tien Tung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzer-Min Shen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Fu-Ting Yen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Gary Chan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Keng-Chu Lin (Ping-Tung, Taiwan), Li-Te Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Pinyen Lin (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same. The method can include forming...