US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 29 for "Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,592, issued on July 29, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Cheng-Chieh Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ting Hao Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuo-Lung Pan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Yuan Teng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Chia Lai (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Shu-Rong Chun (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Mao-Yen Chang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Wei-Kang Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Pavithra Sriram (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hao-Yi Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Han Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Hsiang Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hung-Jui Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semico...