ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,291, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Soo Man Seo (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include: a plurality of word lines extending in a first direction; a plurality of bit lines extending in a second direction, a plurality of memory cells disposed at intersections of the plurality of word lines and the plurality of bit lines, respectively, each memory cell structured to include a variable resistance element configured to store data by exhibiting different resistance values ...