ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,334, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Daejin Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea), Boreum Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kongsoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sunguk Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include a substrate including an active pattern, a conductive filling pattern on an impurity region at an upper portion of the active pattern, a first spacer and a second spacer stacked on a sidewall of the conductive filling pattern in a horizontal direction, and a bit line structure on the conducti...