ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,265, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device including recessed sidewall" was invented by Jae Young Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Mincheol Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wooseok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes an active pattern on a substrate, source/drain patterns on the active pattern, channel patterns on the active pattern and connected to the source/drain patterns each including stacked semiconductor patterns, gate electrodes on the channel patterns and extending in parallel to each other in a first ...