ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,159, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices" was invented by Juwon Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Younghun Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a BLSA circuit pattern on a substrate, a column circuit pattern on a portion of the substrate adjacent to the BLSA pattern, and a cell array. The cell array includes bit lines extending in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction on the BLSA circuit pattern and the column circuit pattern, gate electrodes extending in the second directio...