US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Aug. 5 for "Semiconductor memory device that includes a plurality of first pillars, second pillars, and third pillars" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,634, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device that includes a plurality of first pillars, second pillars, and third pillars" was invented by Takahito Nishimura (Kuwana, Japan) and Takuya Nishikawa (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a first stacked body that includes a memory region, a stepped region, and a connection region arranged in a first direction; a plurality of first pillars that is disposed in the memory region, extends in the first stacked body in the stacking direction; a plurality of second pillars...