US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Nov. 25 for "Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,252, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing thereof" was invented by Tzu-Ging Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Chang Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first channel region extending in a first lateral direction, and comprising a first epitaxial structure; a second channel region extends in the first lateral direction, next to the first channel region along a second lateral direction, and comprising a pair of second epitaxial structures; a third channel region formed over the...