ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,678, issued on March 17, was assigned to Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"Semiconductor device, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus including the device" was invented by Huilong Zhu (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a semiconductor device, a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device, and an electronic apparatus including the device. According to the embodiments, the semiconductor device may include: an active region extending substantially in a vertical direction on a substrate; a gate stack formed around at least a portion of an outer ...