US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 20 for "Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,471, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Subin Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangwon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeeyong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeonjoo Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Habin Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a stack structure having gate electrodes and interlayer insulating layers, the stack structure having a cell region and a step region, and the gate electrodes extending in a first direction to have a step shape in t...