US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 2 for "Semiconductor device and electronic system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,346, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and electronic system" was invented by Jaeryong Sim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Shinhwan Kang (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 lower structure including a peripheral circuit, a lower insulating structure covering the peripheral circuit, and a pattern structure on the lower insulating structure; a stack structure including interlayer insulating layers and horizontal layers alternately stacked on the lower structure, wherein the ho...