ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,160, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Sanggyu Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyuckchai Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang-Il Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungjin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Suhyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chul Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungho Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeongwon Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ilgweon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a peripheral active pattern defined by a device isolation layer, a gate structure on th...