ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,336, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Seungchan Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Donghwan Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including: a first structure including: a first semiconductor pattern protruding from a substrate, the first semiconductor pattern being a channel; a first conductive pattern surrounding the first semiconductor pattern, the first conductive pattern being a gate electrode; a first impurity region under the first semiconductor pattern, the first impurity region contacting th...