ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,979, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Ko-Cheng Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chang-Miao Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a first transistor including a first gate structure; a second transistor including a second gate structure and arranged adjacent to the first transistor in a first direction; and a first isolation feature extending in a second direction. The second direction and the first direction are perpendicular. The first isolation feature is between the first gate structure an...