ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,558, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor storage device" was invented by Yasuhiro Uchimura (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, in a semiconductor storage device, during an erasing operation, a voltage supplied to at least one of a first wiring and a second wiring is set as a first voltage, and a voltage supplied to a first conductive layer is set as a second voltage. The erasing operation includes a first operation period in which the first voltage is increased from a first reference voltage to a first erase voltage and the second voltage is increas...