ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,629, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and UIF (UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION), YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Jaecheon Yong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Daehong Ko (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate having first and second regions, semiconductor patterns spaced apart from each other in a first horizontal direction on the first region, wherein each of the semiconductor patterns has first side surfaces opposing each other in the first horizontal direction and second side s...