US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on April 21 for "Method and system for layout enhancement based on inter-cell correlation" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,926, issued on April 21, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and system for layout enhancement based on inter-cell correlation" was invented by Wei-Lin Chu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Hsin-Lun Tseng (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Sheng-Wen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Chung Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chi-Ming Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: providing a first design layout including a plurality of cells; updating a first cell of the plurality of cells using optical proximity correction to provide a first updated cell and a data set; and updati...