US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 25 for "Semiconductor device" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,841, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Jhon-Jhy Liaw (Zhudong Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes circuit cells, a VSS conductor, a first VDD conductor, and a second VDD conductor. Each of the circuit cells comprises at least one N-type transistor and at least one P-type transistor. The VSS conductor is under the circuit cells. The VSS conductor is electrically connected to source/drain features of the N-type transistors. The first VDD conductor is under the circuit cel...