ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,053, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device" was invented by Byeong Chan Bang (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jin Taek Park (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Jeong Yun Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a stack structure including a plurality of interlayer insulating layers and a plurality of gate conductive layers that are alternately stacked, a channel plug at least...