ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,519, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Ho-Jun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jun Beom Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kwan Young Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a lower substrate; a lower active pattern which extends in a first direction on the lower substrate; a first lower gate electrode which extends in a second direction on the lower active pattern; an upper substrate on the first lower gate electrode; an upper active pattern which extends in ...