US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 1 for "Three-dimensional nor array and method of making the same" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,353, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional nor array and method of making the same" was invented by Masaaki Higashitani (Cupertino, Calif.), Peter Rabkin (Cupertino, Calif.), Hiroyuki Kinoshita (San Jose, Calif.), Satoshi Shimizu (Yokkaichi, Japan), Yanli Zhang (San Jose, Calif.) and Johann Alsmeier (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes a vertical stack of repetition units, where each instance of the repetition unit extends along a first horizontal direction and includes a first electrically conductive strip, a first memory film ...