US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on May 27 for "Integrated circuit with guard ring" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,798, issued on May 27, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit with guard ring" was invented by Chiao-Han Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Hsien Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ho-Hsiang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsien-Yuan Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Jin Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ying-Ta Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes an inductor that includes a first set of conductors in at least a first metal layer, and a guard ring enclosing the inductor. The guard ring includes a first conductor extending in a first direction, a second conductor exte...