ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,360, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device including key region and key pattern and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Sungsik Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeonghyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jonghwa Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunju Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Bumjoon Youn (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a key region, a dummy active pattern provided on the key region, a dummy channel pattern provided on the dummy active pattern, the dummy channel pattern includi...