ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,238, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Row decoders having transistors placed in a plurality of rows and memory devices including the same" was invented by Kyoungmin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minchae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sujin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bok-Yeon Won (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Bumjae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A row decoder includes first and second main wordline driving circuits, which are configured to generate respective first and second driving signals onto corresponding first and second main wordlines extending a...