ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,653, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Soojin Jeong (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Dong Il Bae (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Geumjong Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungmin Song (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Junggil Yang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include first and second channel patterns on a substrate, first and second source/drain patterns in contact respectively with the first and second channel patterns, and first and second gate electrodes respectively overlapping the first and second channel pat...