US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Aug. 11 for "Memory device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,949, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory device" was invented by Natsuki Fukuda (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Tadashi Iguchi (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Contact plugs extend along a first axis. Each contact plug includes a second conductor and a first insulator. A first insulator is between the first conductors and the second conductor. A lower face of each contact plug is in contact with an upper face of a unique one of the first conductors. A first one and second one of the contact plugs are adjacent along a second axis that crosses the first axis. A third one of the contact plugs is betwe...