US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 17 for "Integrated circuit device and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,635, issued on March 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit device and method" was invented by Kao-Cheng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hidehiro Fujiwara (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yen Lin Chung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei Min Chan (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yen-Huei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a memory array including a plurality of memory cells, a first word line over the memory array and electrically coupled to at least one first memory cell among the plurality of memory cells, and a second word line under the memory arra...