ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,467, issued on April 14, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor with extended life time flash memory" was invented by Chung-Yi Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor with 3D flash memory storing cells giving an extended life time includes a stack structure in each storing cell, a receiving space crossing through the stack structure, a blocking layer, at least one floating gate layer, and a channel layer. The stack structure includes at least one control gate layer, at least two dielectric layers, and at least one erasing layer. The receiving space com...