US Patent Issued to Monolithic 3D on July 15 for "3D semiconductor memory device and structure" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,219, issued on July 15, was assigned to Monolithic 3D Inc. (Klamath Falls, Ore.).

"3D semiconductor memory device and structure" was invented by Zvi Or-Bach (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Cronquist (Klamath Falls, Ore.), Deepak C. Sekar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zeev Wurman (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Israel Beinglass (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D semiconductor memory, the memory including: a first level including first memory cells, first transistors, and a first control line, where the first memory cells each include one of the first transistors; a second level including second memory cells, second transistors, and a sec...