ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,303, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Stacking CMOS structure" was invented by Yu-Xuan Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-En Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Ching-Wei Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kuan-Lun Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes a power rail, a first source/drain feature disposed over the power rail, a via connecting the power rail to the first source/drain feature; an isolation feature disposed over the first source/drain feature, and a second source/drain feature disposed over the isolation feature, where the...