ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,750, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same, and electronic system including semiconductor device" was invented by Daehwan Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chanju Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a cell array region, a contact region, a gate stack structure, a channel structure extending through the gate stack structurem, and gate contact portions connected to respective gate electrodes. At least some of the gate contact portions ex...