US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 23 for "Integrated circuit and method of forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,712, issued on June 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit and method of forming the same" was invented by Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Johnny Chiahoa Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Ying Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia-Hong Gao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jung-Chan Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jerry Chang Jui Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flip-flop includes a first, second, third and a fourth active region extending in a first direction, and being on a first level of a substrate. The first active region corresponds to a first set of transistors of a first t...