ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,742, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to United Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor structure" was invented by Ming-Hua Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan), Hao Ping Yan (Tainan, Taiwan), Chin-Chia Kuo (Tainan, Taiwan) and Wei Hsuan Chang (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure including a substrate and protection structures is provided. The substrate includes a die region. The die region includes corner regions. The protection structures are located in the corner region. Each of the protection structures has a square top-view pattern. The square top-view patterns located in the same corner regi...