ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,269, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Junhyeok Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kiseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active region, a word line structure crossing the active region and extending in a first direction, a bit line structure extending in a second direction, a bit line contact electrically connecting a first impurity region of the active region to the bit line structure, a storage node contact on a sidewall of the bit line structure and electrica...