US Patent Issued to Kioxia on March 25 for "Semiconductor memory device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,128, issued on March 25, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Mitsunori Masaki (Yokkaichi, Japan), Hisashi Kato (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kazuhiro Nojima (Mie, Japan), Shoichi Miyazaki (Yokkaichi, Japan), Akira Yotsumoto (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kanako Shiga (Yokkaichi, Japan), Yu Hirotsu (Kuwana, Japan) and Osamu Matsuura (Kuwana, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor memory device includes: a first and second member each extending in a first direction in a boundary part between a first and second block region and arranged in the first direction; a support pillar arranged between the...