ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,121, issued on July 22, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Yu Jin Park (Icheon-si, South Korea), Nam Jae Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Eun Seok Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes a peripheral circuit structure on a semiconductor substrate, a conductive line connected to the peripheral circuit structure, a peripheral circuit side bonding conductive pattern connected to the conductive line, a peripheral circuit side auxiliary bonding conduc...