US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 24 for "Temperature monitoring device and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,174, issued on June 24, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Temperature monitoring device and method" was invented by Po-Zeng Kang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wen-Shen Chou (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yung-Chow Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a plurality of active area structures extending in parallel, first and second dummy gate layers spanning the plurality of active area structures, a first active device including first portions of the plurality of active area structures between the first and second dummy gate layers, a metal layer spanning the p...