ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,528, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Dongjin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Junhee Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Kangoh Yun (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Sohyun Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first isolation structure extending through an upper portion of a substrate and defining a first active region, a first gate structure on the substrate, and first source/drain regions at upper portions of the first active region adjacent to the first gate structure. The first isolation structure...