US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Oct. 27 for "Semiconductor device including contact plugs and method of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,647, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device including contact plugs and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Min Young Heo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include a gate structure including insulating layers and conductive layers that are alternately stacked, a contact plug extending through the gate structure to connect to at least one of the conductive layers, and first insulating spacers that are disposed between the respective conductive layers and the contact plug. A lowest first insulating spacer, among t...