ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,808, issued on March 11, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device with programmable structure and method for fabricating the same" 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: "The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; an isolation layer positioned in the substrate and defining an active area of the substrate, wherein the active area includes a transistor portion and a programmable portion extending from the t...