ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,612, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the semiconductor device" was invented by Hyung Keun Kim (Icheon, South Korea), Jun Ku Ahn (Icheon, South Korea), Jun Young Lim (Icheon, South Korea) and Sung Lae Cho (Icheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a stack structure including first electrodes and insulating layers alternately stacked on each other, a second electrode passing through the stack structure, and variable resistance patterns each interposed between the second electrode and a corresponding one of th...