ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,869, issued on March 4, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor device and semiconductor storage device" was invented by Yasuhiro Suematsu (Yokohama, Japan) and Maya Inagaki (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes substrate, a plurality of electrode layers provided above the substrate, and separated from each other in a first direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate, and a first plug provided in the plurality of electrode layers. The device further includes first and second diffusion layers provided in the substrate, one of the first and second diffu...