ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,274, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Flash memory device and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Chih-Jung Ni (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Min-Liang Cheng (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a flash memory device is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of isolation structures in a substrate, an opening is formed between two adjacent isolation structures, and conformally depositing a first silicon seed layer on the substrate and the isolation structures and performing a first cycle. The first cycle includes perf...