ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,579, issued on June 24, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Po-Yu Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Fang-Yun Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Tung Yue (Taipei, Taiwan), Kuo-Liang Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Mu-Kai Tsai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Jinn-Horng Lai (Miaoli County, Taiwan) and Cheng-Hsiung Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first transistor disposed on the substrate, a second transistor in proximity to the first transistor on the substrate, at least one interlayer dielectric layer covering the first transistor a...