US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Oct. 14 for "Devices with reduced capacitances" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,646, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Devices with reduced capacitances" was invented by Yu-Hsin Chan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Cai-Ling Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chang-Wen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Hsiang Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuan-Wei Huang (Taoyuan County, Taiwan), Jr-Hung Li (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Jay Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ting-Kui Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a method. The method includes receiving a workpiece having a conductive feature over ...