US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Jan. 28 for "Memory system with verify operations of odd and even word lines" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,567, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system with verify operations of odd and even word lines" was invented by Kazutaka Ikegami (Inagi, Japan), Takashi Maeda (Kamakura, Japan) and Reiko Sumi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system according to an embodiment includes a first bit line, a source line, a first word line, a second word line, a first memory pillar and a control circuit. The control circuit performs a first verify operation to first and second memory cells, a second verify operation to the first memory cell, a third verify operation to the second memory cell and a wri...