ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,281, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices and electronic systems including the same" was invented by Sooyong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyung Jae Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yongjin Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a semiconductor device and an electronic system including the same. The semiconductor device may include a stack on a substrate and extending in a first direction, the stack including electrodes vertically stacked on the substrate, string selection lines that are on the stack, extend parallel to the fi...