US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Dec. 30 for "Semiconductor cell and active area arrangement" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,977, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor cell and active area arrangement" was invented by Pochun Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Yu Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Yu Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Shang-Hsuan Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Chih-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit including a first cell and a second cell. The first cell includes a first plurality of active areas that extend in a first direction and a first plurality of gates that extend in a second direction that crosses the f...