US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 13 for "Semiconductor device and data storage system including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,570, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and data storage system including the same" was invented by Kohji Kanamori (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Seungyoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeehoon Han (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a stack structure of alternating interlayer insulating layers and gate electrodes, a separation structure vertically penetrating the stack structure and extending in a first direction, to separate the gate electrodes in a second direction, and vertical structures vertically penetrat...