ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,166, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Jungkyu Chae (Seoul, South Korea), Kwanyoung Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yoonjin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a pair of first and second dummy active regions extending in a first horizontal direction and spaced apart from each other in a second horizontal direction; a pair of first and second circuit active regions extending in the first horizontal direction and spaced apart in the second horizontal direction; and a plurality of line pa...