US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 25 for "Nonvolatile memory device and system comprising the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,149, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Nonvolatile memory device and system comprising the same" was invented by Jung Tae Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yun Sun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Moo Rym Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of metal lines extending in a first direction and stacked in a second direction crossing the first direction, a plurality of cell structures passing through the plurality of metal lines and extending in the second direction, a plurality of extension regions, a plate common so...