ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,267, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Se Min Yang (Seoul, South Korea), Byung Jae Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jong Keum Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hee Sung Lee (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, device isolation films defining an active region in the substrate, the active region defined in the substrate by the device isolation films, a gate pattern formed in the active region, and source/drain regions on both sides of the gat...