ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,940, issued on June 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor structure and method for forming the same" was invented by Jui-Lin Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chao-Yuan Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Feng-Ming Chang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yung-Ting Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Ping-Wei Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Feng Ting (Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a functional cell region including an n-type functional transistor and a p-type functional transistor. The semiconducto...