US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 7 for "Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,751, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Donghoon Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Beomjin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Boun Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate, circuit devices on the substrate, lower interconnection lines electrically connected to the circuit devices, a peripheral region insulating layer covering the lower interconnection lines, a source structure on the peripheral region insulating layer, gate electrodes stacked ...