US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Jan. 27 for "Semiconductor structure having different heights of active regions" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,580, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor structure having different heights of active regions" was invented by Jian-Sing Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Yu Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Chih-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes a first cell and a second cell. The second cell vertically abuts the first cell. Each first cell has a plurality of first active regions. Each first active region has a first vertical height. Each second cell has a plurality of second active reg...