US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 15 for "Semiconductor memory devices and methods of manufacturing thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,909, issued on July 15, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor memory devices and methods of manufacturing thereof" was invented by Peng-Chun Liou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ya-Yun Cheng (Taichung, Taiwan), Yi-Ching Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Meng-Han Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-En Huang (Xinfeng, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device comprises a first conductive structure extending along a vertical direction and a second conductive structure extending along the vertical direction. The second conductive structure is spaced apart from the first conductive structure a...