ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,275, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Jaehyung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hoju Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Eunjung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kihyung Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yunjae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first region and a second region, a bit line structure that extends over the first region and the second region, an upper spacer structure on a first sidewall of the bit line structure on the first region of the substrate, and an insul...