ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,706, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Su Young Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jae Yeol Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Oh Seong Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sang Yong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an active pattern disposed on the substrate and extending in a first horizontal direction, a gate spacer disposed along each of sidewalls of a gate trench on the active pattern and extending in a second horizontal direction different from the first horizontal direction, a fir...