US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 24 for "Integrated circuit and method of manufacturing same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,103, issued on June 24, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Pochun Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ting-Wei Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Ming Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jung-Chan Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ru-Gun Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ya-Chi Chou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Hsiung Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Xuan Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Jung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Guo-Huei Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shih-Ming Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a firs...