ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,235, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Seongkyung Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Eunbi Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ukjin Jung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include a substrate, which includes a logic cell region including first and second active regions and a test region including dummy regions, first and second active patterns provided on the first and second active regions, respectively, a dummy pattern provided on each of the dummy regions, a device isolation layer disposed in tre...