US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 17 for "Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,648, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Byoungil Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Sehoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a lower structure, stack structure including gate electrodes stacked and spaced apart from each other on a first region of the lower structure and extending in a staircase shape on a second region of the lower structure, and interlayer insulating layers alternately stacked with the gate electrodes, channel structures pene...