US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on April 8 for "Memory device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,676, issued on April 8, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory device" was invented by Masayoshi Tagami (Kuwana, Japan), Ryota Katsumata (Yokkaichi, Japan), Jun Iijima (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tetsuya Shimizu (Yokkaichi, Japan), Takamasa Usui (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Genki Fujita (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a first memory cell array, a second memory cell array disposed in a first direction with respect to the first memory cell array, a first contact plug extending in the first direction through the first memory cell array, and a second contact plug extending in the first direction through...