US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on June 3 for "Layout architecture for a cell" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,245, issued on June 3, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Layout architecture for a cell" was invented by Shi-Wei Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) and Guo-Huei Wu (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a first metal layer having a first first metal layer strip adjacent to a first boundary and a second first metal layer strip adjacent to a second boundary opposite to the first boundary. The first and second first metal layer strips, the first boundary, and the second b...