ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,742, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-Si, South Korea).
"Integrated circuit devices including arc protection diodes for memory structures" was invented by Myunghun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sangwan Nam (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Taemin Ok (Cheonan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit device includes a peripheral circuit structure including a lower substrate, an arc protection diode in the lower substrate, and a common source line driver connected to the arc protection diode, a conductive plate on the peripheral circuit structure, a cell array structure ov...