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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,187, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory devices and electronic systems including the same" was invented by Beyong Hyun Koh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ho Jin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Geun Won Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jung Ho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyun Gun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device comprises a substrate; a mold structure on the substrate; a plurality of channel structures extending in the mold structure; a source layer and a source sacrificial layer between the substrate and the mold...