US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on June 17 for "Cell structures and power routing for integrated circuits" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,179, issued on June 17, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Cell structures and power routing for integrated circuits" was invented by Shih-Wei Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsin Chu, Taiwan) and Kam-Tou Sio (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various memory cell structures and power routings for one or more cells in an integrated circuit are disclosed. In one embodiment, different metal layers are used for power stripes that are operable to connect to voltage sources to supply different voltage signals, which allows some or all of the power stripes to have a larger w...