US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 10 for "Semiconductor device including contact plug" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,365, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device including contact plug" was invented by Junhyeok Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sohyun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate provided with active regions, an isolation layer defining each active region on the semiconductor substrate, gate electrodes overlapping the active regions and extending in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, an insulating barrier structure disposed at a level higher than a level...