ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,725, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SUNRISE MEMORY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for fabricating a 3-dimensional memory structure of nor memory strings" was invented by Vinod Purayath (Sedona, Ariz.) and Eli Harari (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for manufacturing a 3-D NOR memory array provides thin-film storage transistors of each NOR memory string in either shafts or portions of a trench between adjacent shafts."

The patent was filed on July 21, 2021, under Application No. 17/382,064.

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