US Patent Issued to Kioxia on July 8 for "Semiconductor memory device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,696, issued on July 8, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Takafumi Masuda (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuyoshi Saito (Ota Tokyo, Japan), Mutsumi Okajima (Yokkaichi Mie, Japan) and Keiji Ikeda (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device comprises: memory layers arranged in a first direction; and a first and a second via wirings having different positions in a second direction. The memory layer comprises: a first transistor electrically connected to the first via wiring; a memory portion electrically connected to the first transistor; a wiring e...