ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,903, issued on July 15, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Dae Hwan Yun (Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Gil Bok Choi (Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a semiconductor memory device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor memory device includes a stack with a plurality of interlayer insulating layers and a plurality of gate electrodes alternately stacked on a substrate, and a plurality of channel structures passing through the stack in a ve...