US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on May 13 for "Device for protecting FEOL element and BEOL element" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,103, issued on May 13, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Device for protecting FEOL element and BEOL element" was invented by Ping-Chun Yeh (Taichung, Taiwan), Lien-Yao Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shao-Chi Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes forming a front-end-of-the-line (FEOL) element over a substrate; forming a back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) element over the FEOL element; forming an interconnection structure over the substrate; forming a conductive shielding layer electrically connected to the interconnection structure and vertically overlapping the FEOL e...