ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,508, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device including alignment key" was invented by Jong-Su Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaehan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first peripheral circuit structure and a cell stack structure disposed on the first peripheral circuit structure and including electrode layers and inter-electrode insulating layers that are alternately and repeatedly stacked, the first peripheral circuit structure includes a first substrate, first peripheral transistors disposed on the first...