US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 26 for "Standard cell design with dummy padding" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,384, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Standard cell design with dummy padding" was invented by Sheng-Hsiung Wang (Zhubei, Taiwan), Chun-Yen Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yen-Hung Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yuan-Te Hou (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tung-Heng Hsieh (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes a substrate; a first column of active regions over the substrate; a second column of active regions over the substrate; and a dummy padding disposed between the first and the second columns from a top view. The dummy padding includes mu...