ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,289, issued on July 15, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor storage device" was invented by Ken Furubayashi (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Sachiyo Ito (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuya Konno (Yokkaichi Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor storage device includes a stacked body in which a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of insulating layers are alternately stacked along a stacking direction, and a plurality of first pillars extending in the stacked body along the stacking direction to form memory cells at intersections with at least some of the plurality of conductive layers. The s...