US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 24 for "Semiconductor device having power rail with non-linear edge" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,165, issued on June 24, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device having power rail with non-linear edge" was invented by Jung-Chan Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ting-Wei Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chi-Yu Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a plurality of active regions extending in a first direction. The semiconductor device further includes a gate electrode over the plurality of active regions, wherein the gate electrode extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The ...