ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,779, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Dong Woo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jin Bum Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sang Moon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a semiconductor device including an active pattern which includes a lower pattern extending in a first direction and a plurality of sheet patterns spaced apart from the lower pattern in a second direction on a substrate, the lower pattern including a protruding pattern protruding from the substrate in the sec...