ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,491, issued on March 24, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Power rail and signal line arrangement in integrated circuits having stacked transistors" was invented by Chih-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Guo-Huei Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Wei Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shang-Wen Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Li-Chun Tien (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes a first-type transistor having a channel region in a first-type active-region semiconductor structure and a second-type transistor having a channel region in a second-type active-region se...