ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,501, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Sejie Takaki (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Joonhee Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a peripheral circuit region with a first substrate, circuit devices on the first substrate, and a first wiring structure, a memory cell region with a second substrate that has a first region and a second region, gate electrodes stacked in the first region, channel structures that penetrate the gate electrodes, a first horizontal conductive layer on the second subst...