ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,739, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Jihoon Chang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Dong-Wan Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dong-Sik 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 cell region and an interfacial region adjacent to each other in a first direction, bit lines on the active cell region of the substrate that are spaced apart from each other in a second direction that intersects the first direction, and bit-line pads on the interfacial region of the substrate th...