US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 23 for "Circuit cells having power stubs" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,949, issued on June 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Circuit cells having power stubs" was invented by Yi-Yi Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Li-Chun Tien (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chi-Yu Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first-type active-region structure and a second-type active-region structure extending in a first direction and a first terminal-conductor and a second terminal-conductor extending in a second direction. The integrated circ...