ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,625, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and data storage system including the same" was invented by Suhwan Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongseok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Juhyung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minjun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses, and systems for operating and manufacturing a semiconductor device. In some embodiments, a semiconductor device includes a stack structure including interlayer insulating layers and gate electrodes, a channel layer disposed inside a...