ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,685, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Yunjin Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ki Ho Bae (Seoul, South Korea), Boun Yoon (Seoul, South Korea) and Ilyoung Yoon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include a substrate including a first cell region, a second cell region, and a dummy region between the first and second cell regions, and conductive patterns included in the first cell region, the second cell region, and the dummy region. A first pattern density, which is defined as a density of the con...