ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,099, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device and electronic system including the same" was invented by Junhyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a plurality of gate electrodes on a substrate to be spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction; a plurality of channel structures penetrating through the gate electrodes and extending in the vertical direction; a string separation insulation layer penetrating through two topmost gate electrodes and extending in a first horizontal direction; a plurality of bi...