ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,580, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Seungmin Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myungil Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyojin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Doyoung Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes an active region on a substrate; channel layers on the active region spaced apart from each other and including lower and upper channel layers; an intermediate insulating layer between an uppermost lower channel layer and a lowermost upper channel layer; a gate intersecting the active region an...