ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,750, issued on April 7, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).
"Manufacturing method of semiconductor device" was invented by Jong Wook Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method includes: manufacturing a memory chip including memory cells and a dummy cell; and programming the dummy cell before a packaging process of the memory chip is performed, wherein the programming of the dummy cell is performed after the memory chip is completely manufactured."
The patent was filed on Jan. 23, 2023, under Application No. 18/100,248.
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