US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 25 for "Semiconductor devices and methods for fabricating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,204, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices and methods for fabricating the same" was invented by Mun Hyeon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kern Rim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dae Won Ha (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, an active pattern extending in a first horizontal direction on the substrate, a gate electrode extending in a second horizontal direction different from the first horizontal direction on the active pattern, a source/drain region on at least one side of t...