US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 16 for "Semiconductor memory device and electronic system including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,188, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and electronic system including the same" was invented by Gil Sung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Suk Kang Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device may include a cell substrate, a mold structure including gate electrodes stacked on the cell substrate, a channel structures penetrating the mold structure; and a first cutting structure cutting some of the gate electrodes. The first cutting structure may include a first portion having a line shape extending in a fir...