US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 15 for "Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,992, issued on July 15, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Kuan-Kan Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jhih-Rong Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yi-Bo Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shuen-Shin Liang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Min-Chiang Chuang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Sung-Li Wang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Wei-Yen Woon (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Szuya Liao (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a first transistor over a substrate, wherein the...