ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,642, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Moorym Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Junyoung Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a first substrate; circuit devices disposed on the first substrate; a lower interconnection structure electrically connected to the circuit devices; a lower bonding structure connected to the lower interconnection structure; an upper bonding structure bonded to the lower bonding structure; an upper interconnection structur...