US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 17 for "Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,171, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Hoju Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Seokhyun Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Youngjun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jinhyung Park (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Hyeran Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Bongsoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Sungwoo Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a semiconductor memory device includes forming bit line structures extending in a first horizontal direction on a substrate, and ins...