US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 7 for "Semiconductor device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,442, issued on July 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Wandon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaeseoung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunwoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunbae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeonghyuk Yim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyoseok Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes an active region extending in a first direction, a gate structure extending in a second direction, a source/drain region on the active region, a first contact structure connected to the source/drain region, and a second...