US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Oct. 21 for "Integrated circuit and method of forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,416, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit and method of forming the same" was invented by Johnny Chiahao Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jung-Chan Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jian-Sing Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jerry Chang Jui Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Xiangdong Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming an integrated circuit (IC) includes generating a netlist of a first circuit, generating a first cell layout of the first circuit, placing the first cell layout, by an automatic placement and routing (AP...