ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,263, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Jihee Jun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Injae Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihoon Chang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dongsik Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a S/A circuit, bit lines, a gate electrode, a gate insulation pattern, a channel, an upper contact plug and a capacitor on a substrate. The bit lines includes first, second, third and fourth bit lines sequentially arranged in the second direction. A first lower contact plug, a first lower wiri...