ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,424, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Yanghee Lee (Incheon, South Korea), Jonghyuk Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ilyoung Yoon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Boun Yoon (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeehwan Heo (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include a substrate, a patterned structure, a filling pattern, and a conductive spacer. The substrate may include a semiconductor chip region and an overlay region. The patterned structure may include bit line structures spaced by a first distance on the semicond...