ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,224, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for forming semiconductor device" was invented by Wang-Chun Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hou-Yu Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Kuan-Lun Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Chih-Hao Wang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor structures and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor structure according to the present disclosure includes at least one first semiconductor element and at least one second semiconductor element over a substrate, a dielectric fin disposed between the at least one ...