US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 12 for "Laser beam adjustment in semiconductor device fabrication" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,606, issued on May 12, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Laser beam adjustment in semiconductor device fabrication" was invented by Wei-Fu Wang (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Yi-Chao Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Li-Ting Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yee-Chia Yeo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intensity of a power laser beam applied to a semiconductor device is adjusted. An applied intensity of the power laser beam is indicative of a magnitude at which the power laser beam is emitted toward the semiconductor device and a reflection intensity of a probing laser beam applied to the s...