US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CMPANY on July 14 for "Local interconnect" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,116, issued on July 14, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Local interconnect" was invented by Cheng-Hsien Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chung-Yi Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Yen-Sen Wang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor structures and methods are provided. A semiconductor structure according to the present disclosure includes a first metal line extending along a first direction, a second metal line lengthwise aligned with and spaced apart from the first metal line, and a third metal line extending along the first direction. The third metal line includes a ...