ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,972, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Jaehyun Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jonghan Lee (Namyangju-si, South Korea), Hyungkoo Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jonghoon Baek (Ansan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes an active fin protruding from a substrate; a plurality of channel layers on the active fin and spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction; a gate pattern intersecting the active fin and the plurality of channel layers; and source/drain regions on recessed regions of the ac...