ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,170, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device" was invented by Woo Tae Lee (Icheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include a word line that extends in a first direction, a bit line that extends in a second direction that intersects the first direction, a variable resistance pattern that is disposed between the word line and the bit line and that has a first width in the first direction and a second width in the second direction, wherein the first width and the second width are different from...