US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 18 for "Method of designing an integrated circuit and system for designing integrated circuit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,261, issued on March 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method of designing an integrated circuit and system for designing integrated circuit" was invented by Jian-Sing Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jung-Chan Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ting Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ting-Wei Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes designing a plurality of cells for a semiconductor device, wherein designing the plurality of cells comprises reserving a routing track of a plurality of routing tracks within each of the plurality of cells, wherein each of the plurality of cell...