ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,498, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Yu-Jen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ling-Sung Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), I-Shan Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chan-yu Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes first and second active regions extending in a first direction. The semiconductor structure further includes gate electrodes extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Each of the gate electrodes includes a first segment over at least one of the first active region or t...