US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 9 for "Method and system for latch-up prevention" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,019, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and system for latch-up prevention" was invented by Po-Chia Lai (Fremont, Calif.), Kuo-Ji Chen (Taipei county, Taiwan), Wen-Hao Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Wun-Jie Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Ti Su (Tainan, Taiwan), Rabiul Islam (Austin, Texas), Shu-Yi Ying (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Stefan Rusu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kuan-Te Li (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and David Barry Scott (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit design method includes receiving an integrated circuit design, and determining a floor plan for the...