ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,155, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Kyunghwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wonsok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Juho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Daewon Ha (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having a three-dimensional structure, the memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells repeatedly arranged in a first lateral direction, a second lateral direction, and a vertical direction, wherein the first lateral direction and the second lateral di...