US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Jan. 28 for "Standard-cell layout structure with horn power and smart metal cut" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,793, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Standard-cell layout structure with horn power and smart metal cut" was invented by Ni-Wan Fan (Miao-Li County, Taiwan), Ting-Wei Chiang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Cheng-I Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jung-Chan Yang (Longtan Township, Taiwan), Hsiang-Jen Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Lipen Yuan (Jhubei, Taiwan) and Chi-Yu Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes first and second source/drain regions on or within a substrate...