ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,016, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and electronic system including the same" was invented by Choasub Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Bongtae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jae-Joo Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sungil Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include a first cell block including a first electrode structure including first electrodes stacked on a substrate, and first channels penetrating the first electrode structure, and a second cell block including a second electrode structure including second el...