ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,511, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device with active portions of varied widths inside active pattern" was invented by Joongwon Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kiheung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jae Hyun Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byung-Moo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to semiconductor devices. One example semiconductor device comprises a substrate that includes a first active pattern, a first source/drain pattern, a second source/drain pattern, and a third source/drain pattern on the first ac...