US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Dec. 16 for "Semiconductor device having different extending active layers" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,608, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device having different extending active layers" was invented by Seonhaeng Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangwoo Pae (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Namhyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first fin pattern protruding from a substrate and extending in a first direction; first and second active layers extending in the first direction on the first fin pattern, the second active layer being at a level higher than a level of the first active layer, the first and second active ...