US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 28 for "Integrated circuit having contact jumper" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,663, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit having contact jumper" was invented by Jung-Ho Do (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Tae-Joong Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Seung-Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jong-Hoon Jung (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes first and second active regions extending in a first direction, a first gate line extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction and crossing the first and second active regions, and a first contact jumper including a first co...