ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,152, issued on June 16, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory cell and semiconductor memory device with the same" was invented by Seung Hwan Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Present invention relates to a semiconductor memory device. A semiconductor memory device according to the present invention may comprise: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells over a substrate, the plurality of memory cells repeatedly arranged in horizontal direction and a vertical direction, the horizontal direction parallel to a surface of the substrate, the vertical direction perpendi...