US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Sept. 9 for "Multi-bit writing and verification in semiconductor memory device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,634, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multi-bit writing and verification in semiconductor memory device" was invented by Takahiro Shimizu (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a memory string and a control circuit. The memory string includes a first memory cell connected to a first word line and a second memory cell adjacent to the first memory cell and connected to a second word line. The control circuit is configured to perform a multi-bit-data writing with respect to each of the first and second memory cells. The multi-bit-data writing includes, in...