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Sunil Shim — 71 Patents

Samsung: 71 patents #956 of 75,807Top 2%
Seoul, KR: #501 of 39,741 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #28,405 of 4,157,543Top 1%
71 Patents All Time
Sunil Shim has been granted 71 US patents while listed as an inventor at Samsung. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in July 2025. Sunil Shim ranks #28,405 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.68%). Patent records list Sunil Shim in Seoul, KR.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2011 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2013.peak 162011: 2 patents20112012: 6 patents2013: 16 patents20132014: 12 patents2015: 9 patents20152016: 4 patents2017: 4 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 5 patents20232024: 4 patents2025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 71 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12374635 Vertical memory devices including insulating interlayer covering circuit pattern and intermediate insulation layer on the insulating interlayer 2025-07-29
12347777 Semiconductor device and a data storage system including the same Jaeshin Lee, Juyoung Lim 2025-07-01
12327757 Three-dimensional semiconductor device Shinhwan Kang, Younghwan Son 2025-06-10
12262535 Semiconductor device and a data storage system including the same Jongsoo Kim, Juyoung Lim, Wonseok Cho 2025-03-25
12125535 Integrated circuit device including vertical memory Kwanyong Kim, Wonseok Cho 2024-10-22
12082412 Three-dimensional semiconductor memory device with vertical structures between contact plugs Ju-Young Lim, Jongsoo Kim, Jesuk Moon, Dongwoo Kim, Wonseok Cho 2024-09-03
12002764 Integrated circuit device and electronic system including the same Jongsoo Kim, Juyoung Lim, Wonseok Cho 2024-06-04
11910603 Semiconductor device and electronic system including the same Jesuk Moon, Juyoung Lim, Jongsoo Kim, Haemin Lee, Wonseok Cho 2024-02-20
11770929 Vertical memory devices with segmented charge storage layers Suhyeong Lee, Taisoo Lim 2023-09-26
11665900 Vertical memory devices including charge trapping patterns with improved retention characteristics Younghwan Son, Juyoung Lim, Suhyeong Lee, Sanghoon Jeong 2023-05-30
11653493 Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same Sanghoon Jeong, Sangjun Hong, Kyunghyun Kim, ChangSup Mun 2023-05-16
11652068 Vertical memory devices with bending prevention layers 2023-05-16
11637117 Semiconductor device having selection line stud connected to string selection line Hyojoon Ryu, Kwanyong Kim, Seogoo Kang, Wonseok Cho, JEEHON HAN 2023-04-25
11295815 Integrated circuit device including vertical memory Kwanyong Kim, Wonseok Cho 2022-04-05
10903227 Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same Wonseok Cho, Woonkyung Lee 2021-01-26
10790299 Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same 2020-09-29
10396088 Three-dimensional semiconductor device Sohyeon Lee, Jaeduk Lee, Jaehoon Jang, Jeehoon Han 2019-08-27
9917094 Semiconductor device having staggered pillars Wookhyoung Lee, Jongsik Chun, Jaeyoung Ahn, Juyul Lee, Kihyun Hwang +4 more 2018-03-13
RE46623 Programming methods for three-dimensional memory devices having multi-bit programming, and three-dimensional memory devices programmed thereby Sunghoi Hur, Kihyun Kim, Hansoo Kim, Jaehun Jeong 2017-12-05
9698155 Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same Wonseok Cho, Woonkyung Lee 2017-07-04
9679659 Methods of operating a nonvolatile memory device Joon-Sung Lim, Jin-Kyu Kang, Euido Kim, Jang-Gn Yun 2017-06-13
9548123 Operating methods of nonvolatile memory devices including a ground select transistor and first and second dummy memory cells Byeong-In Choe, Jaehoon Jang, Kihyun Kim, Woonkyung Lee 2017-01-17
9412450 Three-dimensional nonvolatile memory and operating method of three-dimensional nonvolatile memory Gilsung Lee, Jaehoon Jang, Kihyun Kim 2016-08-09
9401209 Three-dimensional semiconductor memory device Jang-Gn Yun, Jeonghyuk Choi, Kwang Soo Seol, Jaehoon Jang, Jungdal Choi 2016-07-26
9331095 Vertically-integrated nonvolatile memory devices having laterally-integrated ground select transistors Jaehun Jeong, Jaehoon Jang, Kihyun Kim 2016-05-03