ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,433, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Changbum Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sunghoon Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a cell region and a peripheral circuit region. The cell region includes gate electrode layers stacked on a substrate, channel structures extending in a first direction, extending through the gate electrode layers, and connected to the substrate, and bit lines extending in a second direction and connected to the channel structures above the gate electrode layers. ...