US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Nov. 3 for "Semiconductor memory device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,246, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Kyunghwan Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Yongseok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ilgweon Kim (Busan, South Korea), Huijung Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sungwon Yoo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Minhee Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes: a first word line extending in a vertical direction; a second word line spaced apart from the first word line in a first horizontal direction and extending in the vertical direction; a first semiconductor pa...