ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,337, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Taegyu Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taehyuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seok-Ho Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Keunnam Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seokhan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joongchan Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kiseok Lee (Suwon-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 cell array region and a peripheral circuit region, an active pattern on the cell array region of the substrate, a peripheral active pattern on...