US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 8 for "Semiconductor device and method of manufacture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,557, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and method of manufacture" was invented by Haohua Zhou (Fremont, Calif.), Mei Hsu Wong (Saratoga, Calif.) and Tze-Chiang Huang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of semiconductor devices are arranged in a stack. Individual semiconductor devices within the stack are selected by an identity signal sent into the stack. The signal is compared within each stack to a unique stack identifier stored within each of the semiconductor devices and, when the signal is the same as the unique stack i...