US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 25 for "Semiconductor device and a data storage system including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,535, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and a data storage system including the same" was invented by Jongsoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sunil Shim (Seoul, South Korea), Juyoung Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Wonseok Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including: a memory cell array region and a staircase region on a pattern structure; a stack structure including insulating layers and gate layers with gate pads alternately stacked in a vertical direction; a separation structure penetrating through the stack structur...