US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 9 for "Integrated circuit with feol resistor" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,311, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit with feol resistor" was invented by Tien-Chien Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ruey-Bin Sheen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Hsien Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IC structure includes a resistor circuit and a transistor. The resistor circuit includes a first metal resistor strip over a semiconductor substrate, and a first metal line and a second metal line extending on a same level height above the first metal resistor strip. The first metal resistor strip is a dummy gate. Both the first metal...