ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,514,010, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Zong-Jie Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chiao-Chi Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chung-Chuan Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Ping Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor structure and a second semiconductor structure. The first semiconductor structure includes silicon. The second semiconductor structure is embedded in the first semiconductor structure, in which the second semiconductor structure has at least one convex portion and at least o...