ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,982, issued on May 5, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device with pad structure and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Tsu-Chieh Ai (Taitung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; a pad structure positioned above the substrate and including a bottom portion and two side portions, wherein the bottom portion is positioned parallel to a top surface of the substrate, and the two side portions are positioned on two si...