ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,328, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Hyun Seo (Goyang-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a cell area including a plurality of word lines stacked on a substrate, at least one ground select line between the plurality of word lines and substrate, and a plurality of channel structures passing through the plurality of word lines and the at least one ground select line, and a peripheral circuit area including peripheral circuits controlling the cell area. The peripheral circuits input a first ground...