US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 23 for "Semiconductor device with cell region" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,505, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device with cell region" was invented by Sheng-Hsiung Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Fong-Yuan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ho Che Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: first fins (F-fins) and second fins (S-fin) arranged in a first row having a single-row height and that includes an alpha cell region and a beta cell region. The alpha cell region includes a first F-fin, a first S-fin and a first gate structure overlapping each of the first F-fin and the first S-fin. The firs...