ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,492, issued on March 31, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electronic device and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Jer-Fu Wang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chao-Ching Cheng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Hung-Li Chiang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Iuliana Radu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The electronic device includes a substrate and a gate structure. The substrate includes a fin. The fin includes a source region and a drain region spaced apart from the source region. The gate struc...