US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on March 18 for "Multi-row standard cell design method in hybrid row height system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,259, issued on March 18, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Multi-row standard cell design method in hybrid row height system" was invented by Hung-Chih Ou (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Wen-Hao Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chun-Yao Ku (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discrete multi-row height cell in a hybrid row-height system with a plurality of rows of at least two different row-heights is disclosed. The discrete multi-row height cell includes: a first sub-cell deployed on a first row with a first row-height; a second sub-cell deployed on a second row with a second row-height, wher...