ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,192, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Kiseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate having at least one active region, the at least one active region being defined by an isolation layer, at least one word line extending in a first horizontal direction inside the substrate, the at least one word line crossing the at least one active region, at least one bit line extending in a second horizontal direction orthogonal to the first horizontal direction, the at least one bit line be...