ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,830, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Non-volatile memory device" was invented by Kuihan Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Sangwon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Minyong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jekyung Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Junho Choi (Gwangju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile memory device is provided. The memory device includes: word lines stacked on a substrate; a string select lines on the word lines, the string select lines being spaced apart from each other in a first horizontal direction and extending in a second horizontal direction; and ...