ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,449, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Seulji Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinhyuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byoungil Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sehoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinwoo Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a memory cell structure on a peripheral circuit structure; a through wiring region on the peripheral circuit structure; and a barrier structure surrounding the through wiring region. The memory cell structure inclu...