US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 24 for "Circuit cells having power grid stubs" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,854, issued on March 24, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsincu, Taiwan).

"Circuit cells having power grid stubs" was invented by Johnny Chiahao Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Sheng-Hsiung Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jerry Chang Jui Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xiangdong Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chung-Hsing Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first power rail and a second power rail extending in a first direction, and a first power grid stub connected to the first power rail through a first via-connector. The integrated circuit also...