ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,317, issued on July 29, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device structure with magnetic element" was invented by Chi-Cheng Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Wei-Li Huang (Pingtung, Taiwan), Chien-Chih Kuo (Tainan, Taiwan), Hon-Lin Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chin-Yu Ku (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chen-Shien Chen (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate and a magnetic element over the substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes an isolation element partially covering t...