US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 8 for "Semiconductor devices" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,207, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Sanghoon Uhm (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a bit line on a substrate, a gate electrode on the bit line, a gate insulation pattern on a sidewall of the gate electrode, a channel that contacts an upper surface of the bit line and a sidewall of the gate insulation pattern, an oxide semiconductor pattern that contacts an upper sidewall of the channel, and a contact plug that contacts an upper surface of the channel and an upper surface of the oxide se...