US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 9 for "SRAM middle strap with feedthrough via" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,015, issued on June 9, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"SRAM middle strap with feedthrough via" was invented by Jui-Lin Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Feng-Ming Chang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Ping-Wei Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first SRAM cell and a second SRAM cell, each including a plurality of field-effect transistors (FETs), a front metal line over the FETs and a back metal line below the FETs, and a middle strap area disposed between the first SRAM cell and the second SRAM cell. The middle strap area includes a plurality of ...