ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,179, issued on June 17, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the semiconductor device" was invented by Young Geun Jang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Wan Sup Shin (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Ki Hong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jae Jung Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device, and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes second conductive patterns separated from each other above a first stack structure which is penetrated by first channel structures and enclosing second channel structures coupled to the first cha...