US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Aug. 4 for "Semiconductor device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,718, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Jae Hyun Han (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a bit line; a first barrier layer disposed on the bit line; a variable resistance layer disposed on the first barrier layer; a second barrier layer disposed on the variable resistance layer; and a word line disposed on the second barrier layer. A dielectric constant of the second barrier layer is greater than a dielectric constant of the first barrier layer."

The patent was filed on Dec. 7, 2022, under Application No. ...