ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,538, issued on June 30, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Method for manufacturing semiconductor device having fuse component" was invented by Wei-Zhong Li (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Hsih-Yang Chiu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes providing a substrate having an active area and forming a first diffusion area in the active area. The method also includes disposing a nitride layer on the active area and forming an opening in the nitride layer to expose the first diffusion area. The method also includes d...