US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 15 for "Semiconductor devices having upper and lower active contacts" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,449, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices having upper and lower active contacts" was invented by Jung Hwan Chun (Anyang-si, South Korea), Seung Jae Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jong Min Baek (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Seok Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Woo Jin Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor devices having improved performance and reliability. For example, a semiconductor device may include a substrate, an active pattern extending in a first direction, on the substrate, a plurality of gate structures on the active ...