ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,548, issued on March 18, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Chen-Yu Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tzung-Ting Han (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a circuit board, a bottom plate, landing pads, a stack, support pillars, and memory pillars. The circuit board includes circuit structures and wires and has a peripheral area, an array area and a staircase area disposed between the peripheral area and the array area. The bottom plate is disposed on the circuit board, and the bottom plate ...