US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 28 for "Semiconductor devices having contact plugs" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,437, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices having contact plugs" was invented by Jinseong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihye Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyosuk Chae (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active region. A gate structure is disposed in the substrate and extends to traverse the active region in a first horizontal direction. Bit line structures traverse the gate structure and extend in a second horizontal direction, intersecting the first...