US Patent Issued to SUNRISE MEMORY on June 3 for "Vertical thin-film transistor and application as bit-line connector for 3-dimensional memory arrays" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,159, issued on June 3, was assigned to SUNRISE MEMORY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Vertical thin-film transistor and application as bit-line connector for 3-dimensional memory arrays" was invented by Tianhong Yan (Saratoga, Calif.), Scott Brad Herner (Portland, Ore.), Jie Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Wu-Yi Henry Chien (San Jose, Calif.) and Eli Harari (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory circuit includes: (i) a semiconductor substrate having a planar surface, the semiconductor substrate having formed therein circuitry for memory operations; (ii) a memory array formed above the planar surface, the memory array having one...