ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,006, issued on July 15, was assigned to UNISANTIS ELECTRONICS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).
"Semiconductor-element-including memory device" 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 each including memory cells arranged in columns in plan view on a substrate, and voltages applied to first and second gate conductor layers and first and second impurity regions in each memory cell are controlled to retain a group of positive holes, generated by an impact ionization phenomenon, inside a semiconductor body. The first and second impur...