ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,061, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Macronix International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Driving connection structures of memory devices" was invented by Ya-Chun Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus for managing driving connection structures of memory devices, e.g., three-dimensional memory devices. In one aspect, a semiconductor device includes: a first array structure of memory cells including first conductive layers, a second array structure of memory cells including second conductive layers, a connection structure arranged between the first and second array structures along a first ...