US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Feb. 17 for "Device having hybrid cell regions and method of manufacturing same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,394, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Device having hybrid cell regions and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Han-Chung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuang-Ching Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia-Hong Gao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Chih Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell region of a semiconductor device includes: active regions (ARs) formed as predetermined shapes on a substrate including first and second ARs having a first shape and correspondingly first and second dopant types, a third AR having a seco...