US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 25 for "Middle-end-of-line strap for standard cell" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,113, issued on March 25, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Middle-end-of-line strap for standard cell" was invented by Meng-Hung Shen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chih-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Charles Chew-Yuen Young (Cupertino, Calif.), Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kam-Tou Sio (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Wei-Cheng Lin (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes a first conductive line, a first conductive segment, a second conductive segment, and a third conductive segment. The first conductive segment is electrically coupled to the first...