ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,753, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Manufacturing method of an input circuit of a flip-flop" was invented by Jin-Wei Xu (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: "A manufacturing method of an input circuit of a flip-flop including: depositing a first gate strip, a second gate strip, a third gate strip, and a fourth gate strip, wherein a distance between the first and second gate strips, a distance between the second and third gate strips, and a distance between the third and fourth g...