ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,304, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Yoonjo Hwang (Gimpo-si, South Korea) and Jiyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first substrate structure including a substrate, circuit devices, and first bonding metal layers on the circuit devices, and a second substrate structure connected to the first substrate structure on the first substrate structure, wherein the second substrate structure includes a plate layer having a first region and a second region,...