ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,699, issued on May 13, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Integrated circuit" was invented by Guo-Huei Wu (Tainan, Taiwan), Chi-Yu Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ting-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Li-Chun Tien (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided, and including operations as below: forming multiple active areas extending in a first direction; forming multiple conductive patterns extending in a second direction different from the first direction and arranged in a first layer above the active areas; forming multiple gates extending parallel to the conductive patterns...