US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 8 for "Semiconductor device for regulating integrated circuit timing and power consumption" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,819, issued on July 8, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device for regulating integrated circuit timing and power consumption" was invented by Hung-Chih Ou (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wen-Hao Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first circuit element, a layer of dielectric material, a first wire and a second wire in the layer of dielectric material, and an array of wires in the layer of dielectric material, wherein a first wire at a first track in the array of wires is electrically connected to the first circuit element, the fi...