ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,317, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Seungmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Junhyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Kangmin Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Joonsung Lim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include: a semiconductor substrate; a peripheral circuit structure on the semiconductor substrate; a plate pattern on the peripheral circuit structure and having a gap; and a stack structure on the plate pattern and including a first stack region and a second st...