ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,788, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Integrated circuit devices" was invented by Inyeal Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jinwook Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dongbeen Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Deokhan Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junghoon Seo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Myungyoon Um (Seoul, South Korea), Jongmil Youn (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Yonggi Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes substrate including a fin-type active area extending on the substrate in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of...