ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,344, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device having active regions of different dimensions and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Ching-Yu Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Tzeng (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) and Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first active region disposed on the substrate, a first gate structure disposed on the first activ...