ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,507, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Minjun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Yongseok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyuncheol Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jongman Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dongsoo Woo (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyunghwan Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device including a substrate, a plurality of source lines extending in a first direction on the substrate, a plurality of word lines crossing the source lines and extending in a second direction different from the fi...