ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,887, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device including contact plug" was invented by Bonhong Gu (Daegu, South Korea), Minwoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jinyong Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyodong Ban (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungwoo Song (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Daegwon Ha (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes conductive patterns, an insulating pattern between the conductive patterns, an insulating etch stop layer on the conductive patterns and the insulating pattern, a capacitor including first electrodes in c...