ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,251, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Min Hee Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kiseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wonsok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first conductive line that extends in a first horizontal direction, a plurality of semiconductor patterns on the first conductive line and spaced apart from each other in the first horizontal direction wherein each of the semiconductor patterns includes a first vertical part and a second vertical part that are opposite to each other ...