US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 31 for "Integrated circuit in hybrid row height structure" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,497, issued on March 31, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit in hybrid row height structure" was invented by Jerry Chang-Jui Kao (Taipei, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Li-Chung Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Sung-Yen Yeh (Pingtung County, Taiwan), Yung-Chen Chien (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Jung-Chan Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Tzu-Ying Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first cell and a second cell. The first cell has a first height along a first direction. The second cell has a second height shorter than the first heig...