ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,543, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory core circuits having cell-on-periphery structures and memory devices including the same" was invented by Hoseok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Younghun Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kangsub Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dongil Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory core circuit includes: (i) a memory cell array having sub cell arrays therein, and (ii) a core control circuit having sub peripheral circuits therein, such that each sub peripheral circuit extends underneath...