ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,118, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DB HiTek Co. Ltd. (Bucheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Sang Il Hwang (Wonju-si, South Korea), Dae Il Kim (Cheongju-si, South Korea), Sung Hoon Lee (Cheongju-si, South Korea) and Young Joon Choi (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. More particularly, a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed, including a device isolation structure with a pre-DTI structure and/or a DTI structure having at least one corner...