US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 28 for "Semiconductor device and method of manufacture" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,733, issued on July 28, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and method of manufacture" was invented by Jian-Jou Lian (Tainan City, Taiwan), Yao-Wen Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Neng-Jye Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Li-Min Chen (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Chia-Wei Wu (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Kuan-Lin Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Kuo-Bin Huang (Jhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device and method of manufacture are provided. After a patterning of a middle layer, the middle layer is removed. In order to reduce or prevent damage to other underl...