ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,955, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory device" was invented by Hiroshi Maejima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a substrate, a memory layer, and a circuit layer. The memory layer includes first to third regions arranged in a first direction. The circuit layer includes first and second transfer regions, and first and second sense amplifier regions. The first and second transfer regions are shifted in the first direction and arranged in a second direction. In a third direction, the first sense amplifier region overlaps the first region, and the se...