ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,490, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Akira Yotsumoto (Yokkaichi, Japan), Keisuke Suda (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kenji Tashiro (Kuwana, Japan), Tetsuya Yamashita (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Daigo Ichinose (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a stacked body having a stacked structure in which a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of insulating layers are alternately stacked one by one, the stacked body including a memory region and a dummy region arranged in a first direction intersecting a...