ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,165, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Semiconductor storage devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Hyojoon Ryu (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Bongyong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Heesuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junhee Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Sangyoun Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kohji Kanamori (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jeehoon Han (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first structure and a second structure thereon. The first structure includes a substrate, circuit elements on the substrate, a lower...