ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,465, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Junhyeok Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sohyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active region; a bit line structure on the substrate and extending in one direction; a bit line contact electrically connecting a first impurity region of the active region and the bit line structure; and a storage node contact disposed on a sidewall of the bit line structure and electrically connected to a second impurity region of the active...