US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on June 24 for "Three-dimensional nor array and method of making the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,543, issued on June 24, 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.) and Hiroyuki Kinoshita (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 located over the first electrically conductive strip, discrete semiconductor channels that are lateral...