US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 1 for "Semiconductor device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,150, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Junhyeok Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes an active region between portions of a device isolation layer on a substrate, a self-aligned pad layer on a first region of the active region, a bit line that is electrically connected to a second region of the active region, and a contact structure on a side surface of the bit line and electrically connected to the self-aligned pad layer. The self-aligned pad layer includes a pad protrusion that extends a...