US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 13 for "Ferroelectric MFM capacitor array and methods of making the same" (Taiwanese, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,590, issued on May 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Ferroelectric MFM capacitor array and methods of making the same" was invented by Chun-Chieh Lu (Taipei, Taiwan), Mauricio Manfrini (Zhubei, Taiwan), Marcus Johannes Hendricus Van Dal (Linden, Belgium), Chih-Yu Chang (Taipei, Taiwan), Sai-Hooi Yeong (Zhubei, Taiwan), Yu-Ming Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Georgios Vallianitis (Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include structures and methods for fabricating an MFM capacitor having a plurality of metal contacts. An embodiment may include a first metal strip, disp...