ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,410, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Joowon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Woongseop Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Eiwhan Jung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jisung Cheon (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a peripheral circuit region on a first substrate and including circuit devices, a memory cell region on a second substrate overlaid on the first substrate, with the memory cell region including gate electrodes stacked to be spaced apart from each other in a first direction perpendicular t...