US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 15 for "Integrated circuit and method of forming same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,006, issued on July 15, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit and method of forming same" was invented by Chih-Yu Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a set of transistors including a set of active regions, a set of power rails, a first set of conductors and a first conductor. The set of active regions extends in a first direction, and is on a first level. The set of power rails extends in the first direction and is on a second level. The set of power rails has a first width. The first s...