ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,208, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Integrated circuit device" was invented by Yonghee Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Myunggil Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Uihui Kwon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seungkyu Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ahyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Youngseok Song (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes a fin-type active region disposed on a substrate and extending in a first horizontal direction, a gate line disposed on the fin-type active region and extending in a second horizontal direction ...