ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,185, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device and electronic system including the same" was invented by Joonam Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sejun Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jaeduk Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Gaeun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include a plurality of gate electrodes apart from each other in a vertical direction on a substrate; a plurality of channel structures penetrating the plurality of gate electrodes and extending in the vertical direction; and a plurality of bit lines arran...