ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,719, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Taeyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yongseok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a source structure, a plurality of gate electrodes on the source structure. The plurality of gate electrodes are stacked and spaced apart from each other in a first direction and extend in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a channel structure in a channel hole extends through the plurality of gate electrodes and in the first direction, the ...