US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 27 for "Semiconductor device including peripheral contact" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,485, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device including peripheral contact" was invented by Jinseong Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Kyounghee Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dongsoo Woo (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyosuk Chae (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including a cell active pattern; a cell gate structure connected to the cell active pattern; a peripheral active pattern; a peripheral gate structure connected to the peripheral active pattern; a conductive pattern connected to the peripheral active pattern, the cell gat...