US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 4 for "Semiconductor device and method for generating integrated circuit layout" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,790, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and method for generating integrated circuit layout" was invented by Kuan-Jung Jhu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chun-Cheng Ku (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for generating an integrated circuit (IC) layout and a semiconductor device. The method includes providing an active region in a first layer of the IC layout, disposing a gate on the active area in a second layer extending in a first direction, disposing a first conductive segment on the active...