ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,701, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Gyeom Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinbum Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangmoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate insulating layer; a gate structure extending in one direction on the substrate insulating layer; a source/drain region outside of the gate structure; and a backside contact plug below the source/drain region to have a second central axis offset from a first central axis of the source/drain region in a horizontal direc...