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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,195, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Daewon Ha (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyunghwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngnam Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a cell region including a plurality of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit region controlling the plurality of memory cells. Each of the plurality of memory cells includes a first active region and a second active region adjacent to each other, a first channel layer and a second channel layer extending in the first direction,...