ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,666, issued on July 8, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor storage device and controller" was invented by Hiroshi Maejima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor storage device includes memory cells, select transistors, memory strings, first and second blocks, word lines, and select gate lines. In the memory string, the current paths of plural memory cells are connected in series. When data are written in a first block, after a select gate line connected to the gate of a select transistor of one of the memory strings in the first block is selected, the data are sequentially written in the memory cells in...