ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,469, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and electronic system including the same" was invented by Min Gu Kang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sang Don Zoo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Joon Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Junghwan Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seorim Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Seok Cheon Baek (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Cheol Ryou (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sun Young Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Cheol-Min Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device may include a substrate including a...