ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,157, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device with an insulative decoupling unit positioned between two of a plurality of conductive features" 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 first tier structure positioned on a substrate and including: a plurality of conductive features of the first tier structure positioned over the substrate, and a decoupling unit of the first tier structure position...