ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,637, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Dongkyun Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soobin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungyoung Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sunwoo Heo (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a cell region and a peripheral circuit region, a peripheral circuit gate line on the peripheral circuit region of the substrate, an interlayer insulating layer surrounding the peripheral circuit gate line, a contact plug passing through the interlayer insulating layer to ...