US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Feb. 11 for "Standard cell and semiconductor device including anchor nodes" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,251, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Standard cell and semiconductor device including anchor nodes" was invented by Nien-Yu Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chin-Chang Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wen-Ju Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first cell. The first cell includes a first functional feature, a first sensitivity region, at least one anchor node, wherein each of the at least one anchor node is different from the first functional feature, and a number of anchor nodes of the at le...