ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,349, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Manufacturing method of semiconductor device" was invented by Ming-Yen Chuang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Katherine H. Chiang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor die includes semiconductor substrate and interconnection structure. Interconnection structure includes first conductive lines, first conductive patterns, first pillar stacks, second pillar stacks, gate patterns. First conductive lines extend parallel to each other in first direction and are embedded in interlayer dielectric layer. First conducti...