ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,088, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor structure and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Chia-Cheng Ho (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Yu Wei (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chan-Yu Hung (Tainan, Taiwan), Fei-Yun Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Chang Jong (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a deep trench isolation (DTI), an interconnect structure, and a conductive pillar. The DTI is disposed in the substrate and the interconnect structure is disposed over the ...