ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,136, issued on May 19, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing semiconductor memory device" was invented by Mi Seong Park (Icheon-si, South Korea), In Su Park (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jung Shik Jang (Icheon-si, South Korea), Seok Min Jeon (Icheon-si, South Korea), Won Geun Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Jung Dal Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes a semiconductor memory device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes a stack including a plura...