ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,433, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Doohyun Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Heonjong Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Minchan Gwak (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seonbae Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jinyoung Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hyunho Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes active regions extending in a first direction on a substrate; a gate electrode intersecting the active regions on the substrate, extending in a second direction, and including a contact region protru...