US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Nov. 4 for "Non-interleaving N-well and P-well pickup region design for IC devices" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,697, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Non-interleaving N-well and P-well pickup region design for IC devices" was invented by Ka-Hing Fung (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first region, a second region, a third region, and a fourth region. The first region includes a first portion of an N-well and a plurality of P-type transistors formed over the first portion of the N-well. The first region extends in a first direction. The second region includes a first portion of a P-well and a plurality of N-type transistors for...