ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,964, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Integrated circuit" was invented by Shih-Wei Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Tien Wu (Taichung, Taiwan) and Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes conductive rails that are disposed in a first conductive layer and separated from each other in a layout view, signal rails disposed in a second conductive layer different from the first conductive layer, at least one first via coupling a first signal rail of the signal rails to at least one of the conductive rails, and at least one f...