ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,273, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Eunjung Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Hyunyong Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Sangho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongseok Ahn (Seoul, South Korea) and Jay-Bok Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a semiconductor memory device comprising a device isolation pattern in a substrate and defining first and second active sections spaced apart from each other, wherein a center of the first active section is adjacent to an end of the second active section, a bit line that crosse...