US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 21 for "Integrated circuit device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,188, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit device" was invented by Wonhee Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Daejin Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sunguk Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes a substrate having an active region, a word line extending in the substrate in a first horizontal direction, a bit line extending on the word line in a second horizontal direction, a bit line contact electrically connecting the bit line to the active region, a doping contact connecting the bit line contact to the activ...