ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,109, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device" was invented by Seung-Jun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Younghun Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hoseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory cell array which includes a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines; a plurality of column selection lines which extends over the memory cell array and includes a first part of the memory cell array and a second part connected to the first part; a plurality of bit line sense amplifiers each connected to a bit line and con...