ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,610, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Hyeran Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kiseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory includes a substrate having a plurality of active regions, a plurality of word lines formed in the substrate and disposed in a plurality of word line trenches extending in a first direction, a plurality of cell pad patterns on the plurality of active regions, a plurality of bit line structures formed on the substrate and extending in a second direction perpendicular to th...