ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,931, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Stacked column floorplan for NAND" was invented by Yuki Mizutani (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed herein for memory device with control circuitry having an efficient floorplan. Control circuitry resides in a control semiconductor die that is bonded to a memory die NAND strings extending in a z-direction. The memory die has bit lines extending across the NAND strings in an x-direction. First column control circuitry is connected to and configured to control a first set of bit lines. Second column control circu...