ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,710, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device having fuse component" was invented by Wei-Zhong Li (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Hsih-Yang Chiu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active area and a fuse component. The fuse component has a bottom electrode in the active area, a first dielectric layer on the active area and a top electrode on the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor device also includes a second dielectric layer on the active area and surrounding the first diel...