US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 21 for "Semiconductor device with alternating bitlines and string select lines and electronic system including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,889, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device with alternating bitlines and string select lines and electronic system including the same" was invented by Hanmin Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeunghwan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Changyeon Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes word lines disposed on a substrate and spaced apart in a first direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate, a string select line disposed on the word lines, memory strings extending in the first direction on the substrate,...