ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,973, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Jongmoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Julpin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihoon Chang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dongsik Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device including a substrate, a plurality of conductive lines extending in a first horizontal direction on the substrate and spaced apart from each other in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, a first cell stack on each of the plurality of conductive li...