US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 5 for "Signal conducting line arrangements in integrated circuits" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,145, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Signal conducting line arrangements in integrated circuits" was invented by Wei-Ling Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Tien Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Guo-Huei Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes fabricating semiconductor structures extending in a first direction and fabricating gate-conductors extending in a second direction intersecting the semiconductor structure. The method also includes patterning a first metal layer to form horizontal conducting lines extending i...