US Patent Issued to SK hynix on July 14 for "Semiconductor device including transistor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,763, issued on July 14, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device including transistor" was invented by Miri Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sei Yon Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Min Chul Sung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a bit line positioned over the substrate and extending in a first direction; a first dielectric layer covering the bit line; a first channel layer positioned over the first dielectric layer; at least one word line positioned over the first channel layer and extending in a second direction crossing the...