ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,558, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Integrated circuit including trench capacitor" was invented by Wen-Feng Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chung-Chuan Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Ping Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Capacitors for use in semiconductor devices including a plurality of first trenches in a first region of a substrate, the first trenches extending in a first direction, a plurality of second trenches in the first region of the substrate, the second trenches extending in a second direction other than the first direction, with the adjacen...