US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Nov. 11 for "Semiconductor device having selection line stud connected to string selection line" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,285, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device having selection line stud connected to string selection line" was invented by Hyojoon Ryu (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kwanyong Kim (Uijeongbu-si, South Korea), Seogoo Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Sunil Shim (Seoul, South Korea), Wonseok Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeehon Han (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes; a memory stack disposed on a substrate and including a lower gate electrode, an upper gate stack including a string selection line, a vertically extending m...