US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 5 for "Variable-sized active regions for a semiconductor device and methods of making same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,725, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Variable-sized active regions for a semiconductor device and methods of making same" was invented by Ru-Yu Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), You-Cheng Xiao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kao-Cheng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Pin-Dai Sue (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ting-Wei Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate; and a cell region having opposite first and second sides, the cell region including active regions formed in the substrate; relative to an imaginary first reference line, a first majority of the ...