US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 9 for "Ferroelectric device and wave computing device" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,303, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Ferroelectric device and wave computing device" was invented by Gerben Doornbos (Kessel-Lo, Belgium) and Georgios Vellianitis (Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ferroelectric device and a wave computing device are provided. The ferroelectric device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a ferroelectric layer and a wave guide. The ferroelectric layer is disposed between the first and second electrodes, and configured to transduce an electrical wave signal to a varying mechanical stress by piezoelectricity,...