US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 25 for "Semiconductor device and electronic system including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,931, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and electronic system including the same" was invented by Jae Hwa Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Hakseon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sungkweon Baek (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device and an electronic system including the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device may include a gate electrode on a semiconductor substrate, a gate insulating layer between the gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate, a first epitaxial layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate and at a s...