US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Oct. 28 for "Semiconductor device and methods of manufacturing thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,649, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and methods of manufacturing thereof" was invented by Tsai-Ming Huang (Zhubei, Taiwan), Wei-Chieh Huang (Zhudong Township, Taiwan), Hsun-Chung Kuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yen-Chang Chu (Tainan, Taiwan), Cheng-Che Chung (Hualien County, Taiwan), Chin-Wei Liang (Zhubei, Taiwan), Ching-Sen Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan), Jieh-Jang Chen (Zhubei, Taiwan), Feng-Jia Shiu (Jhudong Township, Taiwan) and Sheng-Chau Chen (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first int...