US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Oct. 21 for "Semiconductor device with short-resistant capacitor plate" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,168, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device with short-resistant capacitor plate" was invented by Cheng-Hung Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xi-Zong Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsiao Chien Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Tsung Tso (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Teng Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device having source and drain regions in a semiconductor substrate, a transistor including a gate electrode over the semiconductor substrate, an isolation structure in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the transistor, a first inter-d...