US Patent Issued to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS on March 25 for "Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,647, issued on March 25, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Hui-Lin Wang (Taipei, Taiwan), Chen-Yi Weng (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Wei Tseng (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chin-Yang Hsieh (Tainan, Taiwan), Jing-Yin Jhang (Tainan, Taiwan), Yi-Hui Lee (Taipei, Taiwan), Ying-Cheng Liu (Tainan, Taiwan), Yi-An Shih (Changhua County, Taiwan), I-Ming Tseng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Yu-Ping Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on a substrate, a spacer adjacent to the...