ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,237, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Hyunsoo Chung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Lyong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Inhyo Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a peripheral circuit structure including peripheral circuits on a substrate and first bonding pads electrically connected to the peripheral circuits and a cell array structure including memory cells on a semiconductor layer and second bonding pads electrically connected to the memory cells and bonded to the first bonding pads...