US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Aug. 25 for "Conductive structures of integrated circuits" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,134, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Conductive structures of integrated circuits" was invented by Tzu Pei Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Sung-Li Wang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Shin-Yi Yang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Po-Chin Chang (Taichung City, Taiwan), Yuting Cheng (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chia-Hung Chu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chun-Hung Liao (Taichung, Taiwan), Harry Chien (Chandler, Ariz.), Chia-Hao Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Pinyen Lin (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) with conductive structures and a method of fabricatin...