ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,601, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Nam Gyu Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Rak Hwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeok-Jun Son (Seoul, South Korea), Do Sun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Won Keun Chung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the device including a fin-type pattern extending in a first direction; a gate electrode extending in a second direction over the fin-type pattern, the second direction being different from the first direction; spacers o...