US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 23 for "Clock signal distribution system, integrated circuit device and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,827, issued on June 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Clock signal distribution system, integrated circuit device and method" was invented by Jerry Chang Jui Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Huang-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Sheng-Hsiung Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jack Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Chen Chien (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Hsiang Ma (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chung-Hsing Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock distribution system includes a clock mesh structure which has first metal patterns extending along a first axis, second metal patterns extending along a second axis...