ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,751, issued on May 27, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Integrated circuit" was invented by Tai-Yen Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Chung Huang (Taichung, Taiwan), Yu-Shu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Sin-Yi Yang (Taichung, Taiwan), Chen-Jung Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Han-Ting Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Yuan Ting (Taipei, Taiwan), Jyu-Horng Shieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hui-Hsien Wei (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a metallization pattern having first and second conductive features, an etch stop layer over the metallization pattern, a memory device, a ...