ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,987, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Seonghun Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Wookyung You (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kyoungwoo Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Juyoung Jung (Yongin-si, South Korea), Il Sup Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chin Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kyoungpil Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jinhyung Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including a transistor on a substrate; an interlayer insulating layer on the transistor; a first metal-containing layer on the interla...