US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 12 for "Integrated circuit device and electronic system including same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,594, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-Si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit device and electronic system including same" was invented by Sangbeom Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes; a semiconductor substrate having a cell region and a connection region, a gate stack including gate electrodes and insulating layers alternately stacked and having a stair-stepped structure in the connection region covered by a cover insulating layer. The gate electrodes extend from the cell region to the connection region to terminate in a corresponding pa...