US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on June 16 for "Space optimization between SRAM cells and standard cells" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,368, issued on June 16, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Space optimization between SRAM cells and standard cells" was invented by Feng-Ming Chang (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Ruey-Wen Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ping-Wei Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Sheng-Hsiung Wang (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Chi-Yu Lu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes laying out a standard cell region, with a rectangular space being within the standard cell region. The standard cell region includes a first row of standard cells having a first bottom boundary facing the rectangular space, and a...