US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on May 20 for "Semiconductor memory device and manufacturing method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,029, issued on May 20, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor memory device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Yu-Chien Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Meng-Han Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Fu Cheng (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Han-Jong Chia (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chung-Wei Wu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Zhiqiang Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a stack of alternating insulating layers and first conductive layers disposed over a substrate; a plurality of memory cell strings penetrating the stack over the substra...