ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,646, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Sang-Yong Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jin-Hong Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Ju-Hee Lee (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate. A first channel pattern is disposed on the substrate. The first channel pattern includes a first side and a second side opposite to each other in a first direction. A first gate electrode is disposed on the first side of the first chann...