US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 25 for "Vertical type semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,537, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Vertical type semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same" was invented by Eun-Taek Jung (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Joong-Shik Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Byung-Kwan You (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical type semiconductor device includes a substrate that has a plurality of trenches, a support pattern that fills the plurality of trenches and protrudes from a top surface of the substrate, a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate that fills a space between the support patterns, a sta...