ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,114, issued on April 14, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory device" was invented by Takeshi Sugimoto (Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes memory cells for each of layers arranged in a first direction, the memory cells of each layer including groups of memory cells, the memory cells of each group being arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the groups being arranged in a third direction intersecting the first and second directions, first wirings arranged in the third direction in each layer and respectively connected to the groups in each layer, first t...