US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 21 for "Semiconductor device and memory device including a dummy element" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,097, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and memory device including a dummy element" was invented by Changbum Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sunghoon Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor elements, each of the plurality of semiconductor elements including an active region disposed on a substrate, and a gate structure intersecting the active region and extending in a first direction that is parallel to an upper surface of the substrate; and at least one dummy element disposed bet...