US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Nov. 18 for "Method and structure for metal tracks in semiconductor devices" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,187, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and structure for metal tracks in semiconductor devices" was invented by Yu-Lung Tung (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Xiaodong Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jhon Jhy Liaw (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure includes first and second cells next to each other and having first and second cell heights, respectively, along a column direction. Each cell includes at least one semiconductor active region extending lengthwise along a row direction perpendicular to the column direction. The structure further inclu...