ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,154, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Hyeonok Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Donghwa Shin (Gwangju, South Korea), Hoin Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngseung Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include a substrate extending in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the substrate including a memory cell region, a peripheral circuit region, and a boundary region between the memory cell region and the peripheral circuit region, first active patterns in ...