US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Aug. 5 for "Semiconductor storage device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,152, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor storage device" was invented by Tadashi Iguchi (Mie, Japan) and Natsuki Fukuda (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor storage device includes a substrate having a memory region and a hook-up region arranged in a first direction and memory structures arranged in a second direction. The memory structures include conductive layers arranged in a third direction and extending in the first direction over the memory region and the hook-up region and contact electrodes provided in the hook-up region and extending in the third direction to have an o...