ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,685, issued on March 3, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Integrated circuit" was invented by Guo-Huei Wu (Tainan, Taiwan), Chi-Yu Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ting-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Li-Chun Tien (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes a first set of active areas extending in a first direction and separated from each other along a second direction in a cell; first and second gate s that cross the first set of active areas along the second direction, the first gate being shared by a first transistor of a first type and a second transistor of a second type a...