US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Aug. 25 for "Semiconductor memory device transitioning to standby mode in between two operations" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,871, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device transitioning to standby mode in between two operations" was invented by Hideyuki Kataoka (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshinao Suzuki (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Mai Shimizu (Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuyoshi Muraoka (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Masami Masuda (Chigasaki Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshikazu Hosomura (Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device comprises a first memory cell and a second memory cell. The semiconductor memory device is configured to be able to perform: a first operation which i...