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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,646, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices with align key structure for stack structures and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Taehwan Cha (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minjae Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Kyungtae Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor devices may include a first stack structure including interlayer insulating layers and gate electrodes alternately stacked in a first direction perpendicular to an upper surface of a substrate on a first region of the substrate and including a first lower st...