ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,524, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Beomjin Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Myunggil Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongwon Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Keunhwi Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: an active region extending on a substrate in a first direction; a plurality of semiconductor layers spaced apart from each other vertically on the active region, including a lower semiconductor layer and an uppermost semiconductor layer disposed above the lower semiconductor layer and ha...