US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Dec. 9 for "Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,552, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Ki Hong Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seung Ho Pyi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Seung Jun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first stacked structure having first conductive layers and first insulating layers formed alternately with each other, first semiconductor patterns passing through the first stacked structure, a coupling pattern coupled to the first semiconductor patterns, and a slit passing through the first stacked ...