US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on June 23 for "Semiconductor devices with active regions and conductive regions of two widths and methods of designing and manufacturing the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,942, issued on June 23, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor devices with active regions and conductive regions of two widths and methods of designing and manufacturing the same" was invented by Ching-Yu Huang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Shih-Wei Peng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Tzeng (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Lin (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes first, second, and third conductive regions and first and second active regions. The first conductive region has a first width and extends ...