ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,572, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Wonkeun Chung (Seoul, South Korea), Byungchul Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hongkeun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hoonjoo Na (Seoul, South Korea) and Chunghwan Shin (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate that includes an active pattern, a channel pattern and a source/drain pattern on the active pattern, a gate electrode on the channel pattern, an active contact electrically connected to the source/drain pattern, and a gate contact electricall...