ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,427, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Hee Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Noyoung Chung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Inseop Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active region extending in a first direction, a gate structure extending in a second direction intersecting the active region on the substrate and including a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode, channel layers spaced apart from each other in a third direction perpendicular to an upper surface of...