US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 15 for "Semiconductor memory structure" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,893, issued on July 15, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor memory structure" was invented by Hsin-Wen Su (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Hao Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Kuan Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Lien-Jung Hung (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ping-Wei Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a workpiece. The workpiece includes a first dummy gate, a second dummy gate adjacent the first dummy gate, a first gate spacer disposed along sidewalls of the first dummy gate, and a second gate spacer disposed along sidewalls of the second dummy gate. The method f...