ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,789, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor structure" was invented by U-Ting Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Shih Wang (Tainan, Taiwan), Chun-Cheng Chou (Taichung, Taiwan), Yu-Fang Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Neng Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Ming-Hsi Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connecting structure includes a substrate, a first conductive feature, a second conductive feature, a third conductive feature over the first conductive feature, and a fourth conductive feature over the second conductive feature. The substrate includes a first ...