US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on Nov. 18 for "Computer system using 3D OS NAND" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,948, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Computer system using 3D OS NAND" was invented by Shunpei Yamazaki (Setagaya, Japan), Takayuki Ikeda (Atsugi, Japan) and Hitoshi Kunitake (Isehara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system with a small circuit area and reduced power consumption is used. The computer system includes a computer node including a processor and a three-dimensional NAND memory device. The three-dimensional NAND memory device includes a first string and a second string in different blocks. The first string includes a first memory cell, and the se...