ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,078, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-Si, South Korea).
"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Teawon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yurim Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seunghee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungwoo Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yong-Suk Tak (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a bit line, a channel pattern including a horizontal channel portion on the bit line and a vertical channel portion vertically protruding from the horizontal channel portion, a word line on the horizontal channel portion and on a sidewall of th...