US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on April 7 for "Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,785, issued on April 7, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing" was invented by Jhon Jhy Liaw (Zhudong Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor devices and their manufacturing methods are disclosed herein, and more particularly to semiconductor devices including a transistor having gate all around (GAA) transistor structures and manufacturing methods thereof. Different thickness in an epi-growth scheme is adopted to create different sheet thicknesses within the same device channel regions for use in manufacturing vertical...