US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Nov. 4 for "Semiconductor device structure including forksheet transistors and methods of forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,812, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device structure including forksheet transistors and methods of forming the same" was invented by Guan-Lin Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuo-Cheng Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shi Ning Ju (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jung-Chien Cheng (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Hao Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Kuan-Lun Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure includes a first dielectric feature extending along a first direction, the first dielectric feature having a first side and a second side opposing the first side. The str...