ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,234, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device having overlay structures in a key region" was invented by Moosong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinsun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Inho Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dohyeon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeeun Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang-Ho Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungyoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Nanhyung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a key region, a dummy active pattern on the key region, the dummy active pattern including...