ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,883, issued on July 15, was assigned to UNISANTIS ELECTRONICS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Memory device using semiconductor element" was invented by Koji Sakui (Tokyo), Masakazu Kakumu (Tokyo) and Nozomu Harada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes pages in a column direction on a substrate and memory cells in each page in a row direction in plan view. Each memory cell includes a semiconductor base, first and second impurity regions at both ends of the semiconductor base, and first and second gate conductor layers. A page erase operation, a page write operation, and a page read operation are performed b...