ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,825, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Curved semiconductor chip and method for forming the same" was invented by Jheng-Hong Jiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shing-Huang Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chia-Wei Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate, having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, wherein the substrate includes a plurality of trenches at the second side; a device layer, disposed on the first side of the substrate; an inter...