US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 25 for "Semiconductor devices with circuit active elements and dummy active elements" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,171, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices with circuit active elements and dummy active elements" was invented by Seonah Nam (Yongin-si, South Korea), Byungju Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Byungsung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyelim Kim (Asan-si, South Korea), Sungho Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yubo Qian (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes first and second external dummy areas, and a circuit area between the first and second external dummy areas. The circuit area includes circuit active regions and ci...