ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,553, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Hyun Ho Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Kwon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Cheol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; an active pattern and a field insulating layer surrounding a sidewall of the active pattern on the substrate; first and second gate electrodes on the active pattern and extending in a direction different from that of the active pattern; an interlayer insulating layer surrounding a sidewall of each of the first and secon...