ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,695, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Integrated circuit devices" was invented by Kijoon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device including a substrate including a word line trench and a first recess adjacent to a first side wall portion of an inner wall of the word line trench, a channel region on the inner wall and extending in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate, the channel region including a first channel region in a portion of the substrate adjacent to the inner wall and a second channel region ...