ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,366, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Krishna Kumar Bhuwalka (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyoung Min Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Takeshi Okagaki (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dong Won Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jong Chol Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes channel layers on a substrate, the channel layers being spaced apart from each other, and having first side surfaces and second side surfaces opposing each other in a first direction, a gate electrode surrounding the channel layers and h...