US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Nov. 3 for "Semiconductor device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,256, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Youngwoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an isolation layer defining an active region in the substrate, a word line extending in a first horizontal direction in a first area of the substrate, a bit line extending in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, on the substrate, and a plurality of first dummy word lines provided in a second area of the substrate adjacent in the second horizontal directi...