US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 4 for "Different height cell subregions, semiconductor device having the same, and method of generating a layout diagram corresponding to the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,914, issued on March 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Different height cell subregions, semiconductor device having the same, and method of generating a layout diagram corresponding to the same" was invented by Jung-Chan Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Lee-Chung Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ting-Wei Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Li-Chun Tien (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (of generating a layout diagram, the layout diagram being stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium) includes: selecting first and second standard cells fro...