ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,599, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Akihisa Fujimoto (Yamato, Japan), Atsushi Kondo (Yokohama, Japan), Noriya Sakamoto (Chigasaki, Japan), Taku Nishiyama (Yokohama, Japan) and Katsuyoshi Watanabe (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a housing and terminals. The housing has a first end edge extending in a first direction and a second end edge opposite to the first end edge. The terminals include signal terminals and include first terminals, second terminals, and third terminals. The first...