ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,720, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Youngwoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a cell array region, a peripheral circuit region, and a connection region between the cell array region and the peripheral circuit region; a device isolation region defining a cell active region on the cell array region, a peripheral active region on the peripheral circuit region, and a dummy active region on the connection region; and a gate structure including a gate electrode extendin...