ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,200, issued on March 24, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the semiconductor device" was invented by Kun Young Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea), Sang Soo Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Nam Kuk Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Sang Wan Jin (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor device includes: a stack structure including a plurality of conductive patterns and a plurality of interlayer insulating layers, which are alternately stacked on a substrate; a plural...