ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,757,782, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Chulmin Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Nambin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Samki Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taehun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungjae Baik (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaeduk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, a gate stack including a plurality of gate layers and a plurality of insulation layers alternately stacked on the semiconductor substrate, a plurality of first channel structures pene...