ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,632, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory device" was invented by Masayoshi Tagami (Kuwana Mie, Japan) and Keisuke Nakatsuka (Kobe Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a substrate; first conductors aligned apart from each other in a first direction; a second conductor and a third conductor each extending in a second direction between the substrate and the first conductors, and being aligned apart from each other in the second direction; fourth conductors aligned apart from each other in the first direction on an opposite side of the substrate with respect to the first conducto...