ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,861, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Compatible hybrid-cell structure, device having the same, and method" was invented by Ching-Yu Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Tien Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ken-Hsien Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes first to third power/ground (PG) elements; a first set of at least three tracks between the first and second PG elements and a second set of at least three tracks between the second and third ...