ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,397, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Jungmin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hanjin Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyungsuk Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a lower electrode above the substrate, the lower electrode extending in a vertical direction, a support surrounding a side wall of the lower electrode and supporting the lower electrode, a dielectric layer on the lower electrode and the support, and an upper electrode on the dielectric layer, wherein the lower electr...