US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 28 for "Semiconductor device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,485, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Sunjung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donggon Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongwon Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sukhoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate including active regions extending in a first direction; a device isolation layer surrounding the active regions on the substrate; gate structures intersecting the active regions and extending on the substrate in a second direction; source/drain regions on the active regions; cont...