ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,829, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Magnetoresistive random access memory and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Hui-Lin Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the step of forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on a substrate, in which the MTJ includes a pinned layer on the substrate, a barrier layer on the pinned layer, and a free layer on the barrier layer and the free layer includes a magnesium oxide (MgO) compound. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the free layer includes a...