ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,657, issued on March 11, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Yu-Chu Lin (Tainan, Taiwan), Chi-Chung Jen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Wen-Chih Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ming-Hong Su (Tainan, Taiwan), Yung-Han Chen (Taichung, Taiwan), Mei-Chen Su (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Chia-Ming Pan (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, one or more semiconductor processing tools may form a first terminal of a semiconductor device by depositing a tunneling oxide layer on a first portion of a body of the semiconductor device, depositing a first v...