US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 24 for "Power rail and signal line arrangement in integrated circuits having stacked transistors" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,492, 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: "A method includes fabricating a first-type active-region semiconductor, depositing a layer of dielectric material covering the first-type active-region semiconductor structure, and fabricating a second-type active-region semic...