US Patent Issued to IMEC vzw on July 29 for "Memory structures and methods of processing the same" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,296, issued on July 29, was assigned to IMEC vzw (Leuven, Belgium).

"Memory structures and methods of processing the same" was invented by Jan Van Houdt (Bekkevoort, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology generally relates to memory structures, for example for a vertical NAND memory. In one aspect, a memory structure includes a substrate and a layer stack arranged on a surface of the substrate, wherein the layer stack includes one or more conductive material layers alternating with one or more dielectric material layers. The memory structure can also include a trench in the layer stack, wherein the trench is ...