ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,158, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Kang In Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyoung Hwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Woo Son (Suwon-Si, South Korea), Sang-Bin Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang Min Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Young-Seung Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device with improved performance and reliability is provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a cell region and a peripheral region, a cell region isolation layer that separates the ce...