US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 24 for "Semiconductor device having different size active regions and method of making" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,278, issued on March 24, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device having different size active regions and method of making" was invented by Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kam-Tou Sio (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shang-Wei Fang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Yen Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Sheng-Feng Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Kan Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Lee-Chung Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first cell in a first row, wherein the first row extends in a first direction, the first cell having a first cell height measured in a s...