US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 2 for "Integrated circuit with conductive line having line-ends" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,878, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit with conductive line having line-ends" was invented by Chih-Yuan Ting (Taipei, Taiwan), Jyu-Horng Shieh (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Pei-Wen Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device is disclosed, including a plurality of conductive features disposed over a substrate. A dielectric layer separates the conductive features. A conductive line is provided, connecting a subset of the conductive features. The conductive line includes a line-like portion and a line-end portion."

The ...