ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,600, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Yoonhwan Son (Seoul, South Korea), Miso Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joongshik Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Minjae Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, a first stack structure in the first region, a first channel structure penetrating through the first stack structure and in contact with the substrate, and a second stack structure on the first stac...