ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,146, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Junyoung Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Youngwoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Taehoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sangyeon Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a cell region and a peripheral circuit region; a conductive structure on the cell region and the peripheral circuit region, the conductive structure extending in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate; a gate structure on the peripheral circuit region, th...