US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 13 for "Cantilever nanoelectromechanical decoder circuit and methods for forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,294, issued on May 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Cantilever nanoelectromechanical decoder circuit and methods for forming the same" was invented by Yun-Feng Kao (New Taipei, Taiwan), Katherine H. Chiang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jyun-Yan Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wei Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device structure includes a two-dimensional array of memory cells embedded in a memory-level dielectric layer and overlying a substrate; first access lines electrically connected to a respective row of memory cells within the two-dimensional array; and a first decoder ...