US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Nov. 3 for "Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,261, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Chang Youn Hwang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sang Soo Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Dong Goo Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a plurality of first contacts spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance in a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of conductive structures formed over the first contacts, extending in a first direction and spaced apart in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction...