US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 30 for "Semiconductor device including standard cell having split portions" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,487, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device including standard cell having split portions" was invented by Ta-Pen Guo (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Ying Chen (Chiayi County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first power rail configured to supply a first voltage, a second power rail configured to supply a second voltage different from the first voltage, and a first cell arranged in a first row between the first and second power rails. The first cell has a first first-type active region and a first second-type activ...