US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on May 20 for "Semiconductor memory structure and method for forming the semiconductor memory structure" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,252, issued on May 20, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor memory structure and method for forming the semiconductor memory structure" was invented by Tzu-Ting Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yu-Jen Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Pin Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hung-Chao Kao (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Chuan Su (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Liang-Wei Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chen-Chiu Huang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Dian-Hau Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a semiconductor memory structure includes forming an MTJ stack over a substrate. The method also includes etchi...