ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,684, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device including parallel configuration" was invented by Fei Fan Duan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Fong-yuan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Yu Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Hsiang Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes first and second active regions extending in parallel in a substrate, a plurality of conductive patterns, each conductive pattern of the plurality of conductive patterns extending on the substrate across each of the first and second...