ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,153, issued on April 15, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device with cushion structure and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Tse-Yao Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate including a circuit area and a non-circuit area; a top dielectric layer positioned on the substrate; a top interconnector positioned along top dielectric layer and above the circuit area; a cushion structure positioned along the top dielec...