ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,516, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Jinhyuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongyong Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joongshik Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeehoon Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate having first and second regions; a first stack structure including lower gate electrodes stacked in a first direction in the first region; a first channel structure penetrating through the first stack structure; a second stack stru...