US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 23 for "Integrated circuit having fins crossing cell boundary" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,357, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit having fins crossing cell boundary" was invented by Pin-Dai Sue (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ting-Wei Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ya-Chi Chou (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chi-Yu Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making an integrated circuit includes steps of selecting a first cell and a second cell for an integrated circuit layout from a cell library in an electronic design automation (EDA) system, the first and second cells each having a cell active area, a cel...