US Patent Issued to Avalanche Technology on April 22 for "Nonvolatile memory device including dual memory layers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,813, issued on April 22, was assigned to Avalanche Technology Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Nonvolatile memory device including dual memory layers" was invented by Zhiqiang Wei (Pleasanton, Calif.), Zihui Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Ebrahim Abedifard (San Jose, Calif.) and Yiming Huai (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of first conductive lines extending along a first direction; first and second plurality of second conductive lines extending along a second direction; an array of active regions, each active region having an elongated sha...