ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,404, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Taehun Myung (Goyang-si, South Korea), Yuri Masuoka (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kihwang Son (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jaehun Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seulki Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Joongwon Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyunghoon Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Yonghyun Ko (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Seungwook Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active region, a first gate line and a second gate line in the...