ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,484, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and electronic system including the same" was invented by Sung-Min Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seunghyun Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jae-Joo Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dong-Sik Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a gate stack structure including insulating patterns and conductive patterns which are alternately stacked, a first separation structure penetrating the gate stack structure, a second separation structure penetr...