ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,691, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Chun Hao Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chu Fu Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chun-Wei Hsu (Taichung, Taiwan) and Chia-Cheng Pao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including a transistor. The transistor includes a semiconductive substrate, a gate structure, a pair of highly doped regions and a dielectric element. The semiconductive substrate has a top surface. The gate structure is over the ...