US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Feb. 24 for "Integrated circuit and method of forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,722, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit and method of forming the same" was invented by Meng-Sheng Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yao-Jen Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shao-Tung Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chung-I Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first active region, a second active region, a first fuse and a dummy fuse. The first active region extends in a first direction, and is on a first level. The second active region extends in the first direction, is on the first level, and is separated from the first...