ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,660, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Electronic devices and methods of manufacturing the same" was invented by Sanghyun Jo (Seoul, South Korea), Eunha Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jinseong Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Junghwa Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyangsook Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seunggeol Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a dielectric layer including crystal grains having aligned crystal orientations the dielectric layer may be between a substrate and a gate electrode. The dielectric layer may be between isol...