ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,331, issued on July 22, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Hwang Yeon Kim (Icheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device comprising a semiconductor memory is provided. The semiconductor memory includes a substrate including a cell region and a peripheral circuit region, the cell region including a first cell region and a second cell region, the first cell region being disposed closer to the peripheral circuit region than the second cell region; second lines disposed over the first lines and extending in a second dire...