ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,296, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Jeonil Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyunghwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate. A plurality of horizontal structures is stacked on the substrate and spaced apart from each other. A plurality of vertical structures penetrates through the plurality of horizontal structures. Each of the plurality of vertical structures includes a vertical source line, a vertical bit line, a channel layer, and a dielectric layer. The channel layer is in d...