ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,716, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Kilho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Daeshik Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include a substrate, data storage patterns on the substrate and spaced apart from each other in a first direction and a second direction that intersect each other and are parallel to a top surface of the substrate, first cell conductive lines that extend in the first direction and are spaced apart from each other in the second direction on...