ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,633, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Sunyoung Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sohyeon Bae (Seoul, South Korea) and Wonchul Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a cell array region, a peripheral circuit region, and a connection region, a device separation region including a first device separation layer defining a cell active region on the cell array region, a second device separation layer defining a peripheral active region on the peripheral circuit region, and a th...