ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,426, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Kyen-Hee Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Soo Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Sung Il Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes: lower nanosheets; upper nanosheets on the lower nanosheets; gate electrodes on the substrate and provided around each of the nanosheets; a first lower source/drain region on a first side of the first and second gate electrodes; a second lower source/drain region on a second side of the fir...