ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,748, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Variable resistance memory device and electronic device including the same" was invented by Seyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jooheon Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yumin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Garam Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunjae Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongho Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungyeul Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myunghun Woo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinwoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided area a variable resistance memory device an...