US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 22 for "Integrated circuit and method of forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,519, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit and method of forming the same" was invented by Yueh Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shang-Hsuan Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ming-Xiang Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Guang-Cheng Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flip-flop includes a first set of transistors of a first type being located in a first row and a second set of transistors of a second type being located in a second row. The second type being different from the first type. The first and second set of transistors include a first slave latch c...