US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on March 18 for "Systems and methods for integrated circuit layout" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,260, issued on March 18, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Systems and methods for integrated circuit layout" was invented by Sheng-Hsiung Chen (Zhubei, Taiwan), Chun-Chen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shao-huan Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuo-Nan Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chung-Hsing Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ren-Zheng Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Meng-Xiang Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit layout is provided. The integrated circuit layout includes one or more first cell rows partially extending across a space arranged for an integrated circuit layout along a fi...