ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,637, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Suhwan Lim (Hanam-si, South Korea), Sanghoon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Chungje Na (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a lower structure; a pattern structure including first to third pattern layers sequentially stacked on the lower structure; gate electrodes stacked on the pattern structure and spaced apart from each other in a first direction that is perpendicular to an upper surface of the pattern st...