ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,238, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Kyubong Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Yeonho Park (Seoul, South Korea), Junmo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Eunsil Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Junseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinseok Lee (Busan, South Korea) and Wangseop Lim (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes: first, second and third active patterns on a logic cell region of a substrate and are spaced apart from each other in a first direction; first and second ...