US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 20 for "Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,449, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Minsu Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kiseok Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Woobin Song (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Minhee Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array of a three-dimensional structure including a plurality of memory cells repeatedly arranged in a first horizontal direction and a second horizontal direction that are parallel with a main surface of a substrate and cro...