US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Jan. 20 for "Device layout design for improving device performance" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,733, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Device layout design for improving device performance" was invented by Shih-Pang Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Haw-Yun Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yao-Chung Chang (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Chun-Lin Tsai (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes an isolation region disposed within a substrate and surrounding an active area. A gate structure is disposed over the substrate and has a base region and a gate extension finger protruding outward from a sidewall o...