US Patent Issued to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS on Oct. 20 for "Programmable device and method for fabricating the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,445, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Programmable device and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Tsung-Yu Yang (Chiayi County, Taiwan), Yuan-Chin Liu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chang-Ta Chiang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Cheng-Tzung Tsai (Taipei City, Taiwan), Che-Hao Kuo (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Hong-Ru Liu (Chiayi County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable device includes a semiconductor substrate, a buried insulator, a semiconductor oxide layer and a planarized conductive layer. The buried insulator is disposed in the semiconductor substrate and has a firs...