US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 9 for "Standard cells with multi-well size placements" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,859, issued on June 9, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Standard cells with multi-well size placements" was invented by Yu-Lung Tung (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Xiaodong Wang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Jhon Jhy Liaw (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes first standard cells having first active regions formed over first alternating n-type and p-type wells, the first active regions and the first alternating n-type and p-type wells each extends lengthwise along a first direction, each of the first standard cells includes a first n-type we...