ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,818, issued on July 14, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing thereof" was invented by Kuan-Ting Pan (Taipei, Taiwan), Kuo-Cheng Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shi Ning Ju (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Hao Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Hao Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a forksheet structure in a semiconductor device and methods of manufacturing thereof. The forksheet structure according to the present disclosure includes a dielectric wall disposed between two channel regions inside a gate stru...