ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,371, issued on May 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Dummy cells placed adjacent functional blocks" was invented by Chi-Yeh Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Yi Hu (Zhubei, Taiwan), Shih-Hsuan Chien (Taoyuan County, Taiwan), You-Cheng Xiao (Taiping, Taiwan) and Ya-Chi Chou (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including functional blocks and dummy cells. The functional blocks include a first functional block and a second functional block. Each dummy cell having a cell boundary defined by non-functioning active areas and non-functioning gates for filling space between the fu...