US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 26 for "Semiconductor device and method of manufacture" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,926, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and method of manufacture" was invented by You-Ru Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Sheng Kai Yeh (Taichung, Taiwan), Jen-Yuan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Yuan Shih (Zhubei, Taiwan), Chia-Ming Hung (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsiang-Fu Chen (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Shih-Fen Huang (Jhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device and method of forming such a device includes a MEMS component including one or more MEMS pixels and having a MEMS membrane substrate and a MEMS sidewall. The semiconductor device inc...