ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,447, issued on July 28, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Nam Jae Lee (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes first stack structures enclosing first channel structures and spaced apart from each other. The first channel structures are spaced apart from each other at a first distance in each of the first stack structures and the first stack structures are spaced apart from each other at a second distance."

The patent was filed on Dec. 18, ...