US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Jan. 28 for "Semiconductor device and semiconductor storage device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,301, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device and semiconductor storage device" was invented by Takao Kosaka (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Hideto Horii (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroki Tokuhira (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuya Matsuzawa (Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroki Kawai (Inazawa Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first conductive layer extending along a first direction, a semiconductor layer extending along a second direction crossing the first direction, penetrating the first conductive layer, and including an oxide semiconductor, a first in...