ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,338, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Eunjung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehyung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kihyung Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hoju Song (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 including a substrate including a cell array region and a peripheral circuit region, the substrate including first active region defined in the cell array region and second active region defined in the peripheral circuit region, a plurality of word lines in the substr...