US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on April 8 for "Well pick-up region design for improving memory macro performance" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,045, issued on April 8, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Well pick-up region design for improving memory macro performance" was invented by Chih-Chuan Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chang-Ta Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ping-Wei Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Well pick-up (WPU) regions are disclosed herein for improving performance of memory arrays, such as static random access memory arrays. An exemplary semiconductor device includes a circuit region, a first WPU region, second WPU region, a first well of a first conductivity type, and a second well of a second conductivit...