ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,297, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and electronic system including the same" was invented by Junghyun Roh (Asan-si, South Korea), Seungweon Ha (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Jaeyoung Hong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Wangsun Lim (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate that includes a cell array region, a peripheral region, and a scribe lane region. A stack structure is disposed on the cell array region of the substrate and includes electrodes that are vertically stacked and spaced apart fr...