US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 22 for "Semiconductor device with stacked structure" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,548, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device with stacked structure" was invented by Seungjun Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Siwan Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Bonghyun Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a lower structure, a stack structure on the lower structure and extending from a memory cell region into a connection region, gate contact plugs on the stack structure in the connection region, and a memory vertical structure through the stack structure in the memory cell region, wherein the stack stru...