ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,573, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and data storage system including the same" was invented by Seyong Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kihyun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jihwan You (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device and a data storage system including the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a lower structure including a semiconductor substrate, a circuit element on the semiconductor substrate, a circuit interconnection structure on the semiconductor substrate, the circuit interconnection s...