ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,760, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Yu-Chang Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Sih-Jie Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Po-Kang Ho (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Liang-Yin Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Tsai-Yu Huang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Chi On Chui (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of semiconductor layers vertically stacked over a substrate, wherein the semiconductor layers are vertical...