ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,290, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Integrated circuit device" was invented by Jieun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongho Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Deoksung Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gisung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungyoung Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes a substrate having an active region, a conductive landing pad at a first vertical level above the substrate and connected to the active region, a capacitor including a lower electrode at a second vertical level higher than the first vertical level a...