ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,302, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Nonvolatile memory devices" was invented by Hee-Woong Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dong-Hun Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jun-Ho Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hee-Won Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array and a row decoder. The memory cell array includes a plurality of mats. A first cell string of first mat is connected to a plurality of first word-lines, a first bit-line and a first string selection line. A second cell string of second mat is connected to a plur...