ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,535, issued on April 14, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. and TSMC CHINA COMPANY Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Semiconductor device having serially connected transistors with disconnected bodies, and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Lei Pan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Di Fan (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yaqi Ma (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor has a first body. The first body of the first transistor is connected to receive a first reference voltage. The second transistor has a second body. The second b...