ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,794, issued on May 6, was assigned to SUNRISE MEMORY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multi-gate nor flash thin-film transistor strings arranged in stacked horizontal active strips with vertical control gates" was invented by Eli Harari (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-gate NOR flash thin-film transistor (TFT) string arrays ("multi-gate NOR string arrays") are organized as stacks of horizontal active strips running parallel to the surface of a silicon substrate, with the TFTs in each stack being controlled by vertical local word-lines provided along one or both sidewalls of the stack of active strips. Each active stri...