US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 16 for "Logic cell structure and integrated circuit with the logic cell structure" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,294, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Logic cell structure and integrated circuit with the logic cell structure" was invented by Shao-Huan Wang (Taichung, Taiwan), Chun-Chen Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Sheng-Hsiung Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Kuo-Nan Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logic cell structure includes a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The first portion, arranged to be a first layout of a first semiconductor element, is placed in a first cell row of a substrate area extending in a first direction. The ...