ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,997, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Kiseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinwoo Han (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hanjin Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a bit line structures on a substrate, extending in a first direction, and being spaced apart from each other in a second direction; channels contacting upper surfaces of the bit line structures and being spaced apart from each other in the first and second directions; upper gate structures extending in the second direction and surroundin...