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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,199, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Junggun You (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junki Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunghwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wandon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sughyun Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunbae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes an active region on a substrate, a plurality of channel layers spaced apart from each other, a gate structure on the substrate, a source/drain region on at least one side of the gate structure, and a contact plug connecte...