US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Nov. 4 for "Multi-channel device with seal ring structure and method making the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,152, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Multi-channel device with seal ring structure and method making the same" was invented by Chun Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yen Lian Lai (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure that includes a substrate having a circuit region and a seal ring region around the circuit region; first active regions of a first width W1 formed in the circuit region; second active regions of a second width W2 formed in the seal ring region; first gate stacks disposed on the first act...