US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 14 for "Extended via connect for pixel array" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,150, issued on July 14, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Extended via connect for pixel array" was invented by Meng-Hsien Lin (Tainan City, Taiwan), Hsing-Chih Lin (Tainan City, Taiwan), Ming-Tsong Wang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Min-Feng Kao (Chiayi City, Taiwan), Kuan-Hua Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Jen-Cheng Liu (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan), Dun-Nian Yaung (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Ko Chun Liu (Toufen Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an integrated chip including an extended via that spans a combined height of a wire and a v...