US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 1 for "Arrangement of source or drain conductors of transistor" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,644, issued on July 1, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Arrangement of source or drain conductors of transistor" was invented by Chih-Yu Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Yu Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shang-Hsuan Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first conductor segment intersecting a first active-region structure at a source/drain region and a second conductor segment intersecting a second active-region structure at a source/drain region. The first conductor segment and the second conductor segment are sepa...