US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on April 7 for "Integrated circuit and method of forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,494, issued on April 7, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit and method of forming the same" was invented by Hidehiro Fujiwara (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kao-Cheng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yen Lin Chung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei Min Chan (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yen-Huei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory cell array includes a first bank of memory cells, a second bank of memory cells adjacent to the first bank of memory cells, a first set of bit lines and a second set of bit lines. The first set of bit lines extend in a first direction, is coupled to the fir...