ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,894, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method of splitting semiconductor chip using mechanical machining and semiconductor chip split by the same" was invented by Yeongkwon Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seunghun Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihun Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junyeong Heo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provide is a method of splitting a semiconductor chip, the method including performing a back-end-of-line (BEOL) process including forming a plurality of chip areas on a semiconductor substrate, forming a splitting area, which separates th...