US Patent Issued to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS on Dec. 16 for "Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,678, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Da-Jun Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chih-Tung Yeh (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Fu-Yu Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan) and Bin-Siang Tsai (Changhua County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a channel layer, a gate element on the channel layer, and source/drain elements at least partly embedded in the channel layer. The source/drain elements are on opposite sides of the gate element. ...