ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,195, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and data storage system including semiconductor device" was invented by Jiwon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woosung Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dohyung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sukkang Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first substrate structure including a first decoder circuit region, a second decoder circuit region, and a page buffer circuit region, and a second substrate structure connected to the first substrate...