ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,435, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Kyunghwan Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Yongseok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyuncheol Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jongman Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dongsoo Woo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes first conductive lines provided on a substrate and spaced apart from each other in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, second conductive lines spaced apart from the first conductive lines in a second direction parallel to the to...