US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 15 for "Surface damage control in diodes" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,928, issued on July 15, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd..

"Surface damage control in diodes" was invented by Ting-Ying Wu (Tainan, Taiwan), Yung-Hsiang Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Yu-Lung Yeh (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Yen-Hsiu Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Wei-Liang Chen (Tainan, Taiwan) and Ying-Tsang Ho (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first well region disposed within the substrate, a second well region disposed adjacent to the first well region and within the substrate, and an array of wel...