US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Oct. 28 for "Nonvolatile semiconductor memory including a read operation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,518, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Nonvolatile semiconductor memory including a read operation" was invented by Makoto Iwai (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Nakamura (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory includes first and second select gate transistors, memory cells, a source line, a bit line, a selected word line which is connected to a selected memory cell as a target of a verify reading, a non-selected word line which is connected to a non-selected memory cell except the selected memory cell, a potential generating circuit for generating a selected read potential which...