ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,003, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Seungyoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Junghoon Jun (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sanghun Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeehoon Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device including a substrate, first pad layers and a second pad layer on the substrate, a pattern structure including first openings on the first pad layers and a second opening on the second pad layer, and having first and second regions, gate electrodes...