ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,757,723, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor structure and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Tzu Pei Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Min-Hsuan Lu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Hao-Heng Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yuting Cheng (Toayuan City, Taiwan), Hsu-Kai Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Chin Chang (Taichung City, Taiwan), Olivia Pei-Hua Lee (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Sheng-Tsung Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Huan-Chieh Su (Changhua County, Taiwan), Sung-Li Wang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Pinyen Lin (Rochester, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor...