ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,751, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit devices" was invented by Sungmoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangcheol Na (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sora You (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyoungwoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minchan Gwak (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngwoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinkyu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seungmin Cha (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an integrated circuit device including a substrate, a plurality of semiconductor patterns on a first surface of the substrate, a gate electrode extending in a ...