ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,821, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Junghwan Chun (Anyang-si, South Korea), Hongsik Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Koungmin Ryu (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Bongkwan Baek (Seoul, South Korea) and Jongmin Baek (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes an active region extending on a substrate in a first direction, a gate structure including a gate electrode extending on the substrate in a second direction and traversing the active region, a spacer structure extending on opposing sidewalls of the gate electrode in...