US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Feb. 17 for "Method of semiconductor layout with different row heights" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,393, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method of semiconductor layout with different row heights" was invented by Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Xiang-Dong Chen (San Diego), Lee-Chung Lu (Taipei, Taiwan), Tzu-Ying Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yung-Chin Hou (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes disposing a first power rail, a second power rail and a third power rail arranged in order; disposing a first cell row having a first row height between the first power rail and the second power rail; and disposing a second cell row having the first ...