ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,819, issued on March 3, was assigned to Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor structure" was invented by Michio Sakurai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Shou-Zen Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), I Hsuan Wei (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Wei-Lin Wang (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure including a substrate and a capacitor structure is provided. The capacitor structure is disposed above the substrate. The capacitor structure includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a first dielectric layer. The second electrode layer is disposed on the first el...