US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 25 for "Varying the PO space in semiconductor layouts" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,719, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Varying the PO space in semiconductor layouts" was invented by Feng-Ming Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jui-wen Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chao-Yuan Chang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device comprising a plurality of cells arranged in an array is disclosed. Each cell comprises: at least one active region arranged along a first direction; and at least five spaced apart conductive regions arranged along a second direction disposed over the active regions, wherein the first through fifth conductive reg...