US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Oct. 7 for "Semiconductor device with multi-directional chip guards" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,125, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device with multi-directional chip guards" was invented by Nam Jae Lee (Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a substrate with a cell region and a chip guard region, the chip guard region surrounding the cell region; a first chip guard extending over the chip guard region in a first direction; a second chip guard extending over the chip guard region in the first direction, the second chip guard being spaced apart from the first chip guard; and a third chip guard extending over the c...