US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 28 for "Layout method and semiconductor structure for IC" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,190, issued on July 28, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Layout method and semiconductor structure for IC" was invented by Ching-Yu Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Lin (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layout method is provided. A timing analysis is performed based on design data of a standard cell to classify a plurality of device units of the standard cell into a timing-critical group and a non-timing-critical group. A plurality of first sources regions in the device units of the non-timing-critical group are alig...