ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,064, issued on April 8, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Semiconductor device, semiconductor wafer, memory device, and electronic device" was invented by Hajime Kimura (Atsugi, Japan) and Tatsunori Inoue (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a semiconductor device with large memory capacity. The semiconductor device includes first to seventh insulators, a first conductor, and a first semiconductor. The first conductor is positioned on a first top surface of the first insulator and a first bottom surface of the second insulator. The third insulator is positioned...