US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 19 for "Anti-dishing structure for embedded memory" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,133, issued on May 19, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Anti-dishing structure for embedded memory" was invented by Meng-Han Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Ren Hsieh (Changhua, Taiwan), Chen-Chin Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Pin Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the present application are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC). The integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate including a logic region and a memory cell region. A logic device is arranged on the logic region. A memory device is arranged on the memory cell region. An isola...