ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,229, issued on June 3, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device structure including forksheet transistors and methods of forming the same" was invented by Guan-Lin Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuo-Cheng Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shi Ning Ju (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jung-Chien Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Hao Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kuan-Lun Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The method includes forming a first dielectric feature between first and the second fin structures, whe...