ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,786, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Kyungho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ki Hwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kang Hun Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Choeun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yonguk Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes; a substrate including an active pattern, a channel pattern on the active pattern, the channel pattern including a plurality of spaced apart and vertically stacked semiconductor patterns, a source/drain pattern connected to t...