US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Nov. 18 for "Three dimensional memory device and method of fabrication" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,723, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Three dimensional memory device and method of fabrication" was invented by Chang Seok Kang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Fred Fishburn (Apotos, Calif.), Tomohiko Kitajima (San Jose, Calif.), Sung-Kwan Kang (San Jose, Calif.), Sony Varghese (Manchester, Mass.) and Gill Yong Lee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device architecture, and method of fabricating a three dimensional device are provided. The memory device architecture may include a plurality of memory blocks, arranged in an array, wherein a given memory block comprises: a ...