US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on May 27 for "Power rail and signal conducting line arrangement" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,589, issued on May 27, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Power rail and signal conducting line arrangement" was invented by Guo-Huei Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Wei Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Li-Chun Tien (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Lee-Chung Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes fabricating a first-voltage underlayer power rail conductively connecting to the source region of a first-type transistor and fabricating a second-voltage underlayer power rail conducti...