US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 13 for "Integrated circuit device and electronic system including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,576, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit device and electronic system including the same" was invented by Jeeyong Kim (Hanam-si, South Korea), Junghwan Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hwanyeol Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a cell region and a dummy region outside the cell region, a plurality of gate electrodes and a plurality of insulating layers, in the cell region, extending in first and second directions parallel to a main surface of the semiconductor substrate and a...