US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 8 for "Standard cell layout for better routability" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,962, issued on July 8, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Standard cell layout for better routability" was invented by Tigran Zohrabyan (Ottawa), YangJae Shin (Ottawa), Konstantin Bregman (Thornhill, Canada), Rolando A. Villanueva (Ottawa) and Yunle Sun (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method comprises defining a multi-layer semiconductor device structure on a substrate using standard cells, defining an input port on the M0OD or PO layer of the semiconductor device structure and an output port on the M0OD layer, and defin...