ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,771, issued on July 1, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device having fuse array and method of making the same" was invented by Meng-Sheng Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shao-Yu Chou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Hsiang Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), An-Jiao Fu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Hao Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a semiconductor device includes electrically connecting a component to a first side of a first fuse, wherein the first fuse is a first distance from the component. The method further includes electrically connecting the component to...