US Patent Issued on July 8 for "Memory array having connections going through control gates" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,614, issued on July 8.

"Memory array having connections going through control gates" was invented by Toru Tanzawa (Adachi, Japan), Tamotsu Murakoshi (Kawasaki, Japan) and Deepak Thimmegowda (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods having a substrate, a memory cell string including a body, a select gate located in a level of the apparatus and along a portion of the body, and control gates located in other levels of the apparatus and along other respective portions of the body. At least one of such apparatuses includes a conductive connection coupling the select gate or one of the con...