ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,830, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Chin-Ho Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Wen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jaw-Juinn Horng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yung-Chow Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first circuit with m first units coupled in parallel, any of the first units including one or more first transistors coupled in series, and a second circuit with n second units coupled in parallel, any of the second units including one or more second transistors co...