ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,740, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit device including a power rail" was invented by Bongkeun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myungsoo Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dawoon Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes: a substrate having a backside surface; a pair of fin-type active regions protruding from the substrate and defining a trench region in the substrate; a pair of source/drain regions disposed, one-by-one, on the pair of fin-type active regions, respectively; a device isolation film covering a sidewa...