ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,297, issued on April 22, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory device" was invented by Kuniaki Sugiura (Seoul, South Korea) and Taichi Igarashi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory device includes: a first memory cell; a second memory cell; a first circuit configured to supply a write current to the first memory cell and the second memory cell; a first wiring coupled to the first circuit; a first electrode configured to electrically couple the first memory cell to the first wiring; and a second electrode configured to electrically couple the second memory cell to the first wi...