ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,383, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device and layout method therefor" was invented by Chunghee Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Minsu Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including first and second standard cells disposed in one of a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, the first and second directions parallel to a substrate, and each of the first and second standard cells including a gate structure and an active region, and a filler cell adjacent to the first standard cell in...