US Patent Issued to SK hynix on July 14 for "Stacked semiconductor device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,232, issued on July 14, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Stacked semiconductor device" was invented by Jae Hyung Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seung Geun Baek (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Dong Uk Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked semiconductor device includes at least one upper chip including first and second channels, each including first and second pseudo-channels; and first and second transfer control circuits respectively corresponding to the first and second channels, each configured to select one of the first and second pseudo-channels according to a channel de...