US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC DEVICE INNOVATIONS on Nov. 3 for "Semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,313, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC DEVICE INNOVATIONS INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Yukinori Nose (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first upper surface; a semiconductor layer provided on the substrate; a first insulator layer provided over the semiconductor layer and having a second upper surface; a lower electrode provided over the first insulator layer; a dielectric layer provided on the lower electrode; and an upper electrode provided on the dielectric layer. A difference ...