ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,675, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Euibok Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Rakhwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wandon Kim (Seongnam-Si, South Korea), Sunyoung Noh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hanmin Jang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a lower structure including a substrate, a first interconnection layer extending in a first direction on the lower structure, and including a first metal, a first via contacting a portion of an upper surface of the first interconnection layer and including a ...