ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,264, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same" was invented by Jinwoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jooheon Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Donggeon Gu (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Doyoon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Yumin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Suseong Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changyup Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyunjae Song (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dongho Ahn (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Myunghun Woo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a lower structure,...