US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 2 for "Semiconductor device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,186, issued on June 2, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Cheng-Bo Shu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Yun-Chi Wu (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Chung-Jen Huang (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a non-volatile memory (NVM) cell. The NVM cell includes a semiconductor wire disposed over an insulating layer disposed on a substrate. The NVM cell includes a select transistor and a control transistor. The select transistor includes a gate dielectric layer disposed around the semiconductor wire and a select gate electrod...