US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 13 for "Semiconductor process technology assessment" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,375, issued on May 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor process technology assessment" was invented by Hung-Chih Ou (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Kuo-Fu Lee (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Wen-Hao Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Keh-Jeng Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hsiang-Ho Chang (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of process technology assessment is provided. The method includes: defining a scope of the process technology assessment, the scope comprising an original process technology and a first process technology; modeling a first object in an integrated circuit int...