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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,526, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same" was invented by Sungyeon Ryu (Chuncheon-si, South Korea) and Eunjung Kim (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same. In the semiconductor device, a supporting pattern may be used to fix upper portions of active patterns, when a gap-filling process is performed to fill a region between active patterns, and thus, it may be possible to prevent or reduce the likelihood of the active patterns from bein...