ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,988, issued on May 5, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device" was invented by Jae Ho Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a source structure comprising a cell area and an edge area; a stack located on the edge area of the source structure; a gate structure located on the cell area of the source structure; a channel structure connected to the cell area of the source structure by extending through the gate structure; and a read-only memory area."
The patent was filed on March 20, 2023, under ...