US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Oct. 21 for "Semiconductor device including waveguide heater" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,682, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device including waveguide heater" was invented by Feng-Wei Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chewn-Pu Jou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Huan-Neng Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Lan-Chou Cho (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming semiconductor device includes forming an active layer in a substrate including forming components of one or more transistors; forming an MD and gate (MDG) layer over the active layer including forming a gate line; forming a metal-to-S/D (MD) contact structure; and forming a waveguide b...