US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 8 for "Structure and method of rectangular cell in semiconductor device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,816, issued on July 8, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Structure and method of rectangular cell in semiconductor device" was invented by Pochun Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jerry Chang Jui Kao (Taipei, Taiwan), Jung-Chan Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Tzu-Ying Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chung-Hsing Wang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layout method includes generating a design data comprising an electronic circuit, and generating a design layout by placing a first cell corresponding to the electronic circuit. The first cell includes a...