ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,262, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Gyeom Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinbum Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dahye Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyungbin Chun (Suwon-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 including an active region; a gate structure intersecting the active region on the substrate; channel layers on the active region, spaced apart from each other and surrounded by the gate structure; and a source/drain region on the active region ad...