ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,285, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory device" was invented by Takahiro Kotou (Yokkaichi Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of first conductors arranged in a first direction has a first portion not covered by an adjacent first conductor. A memory pillar extending in the first direction is in contact with the first conductors. A third conductor extending in the first direction has a lower surface in contact with the first portion of one of the first conductors. A fourth conductor penetrates the first portion of a fifth conductor which is one of the first conductors and at least one sixth cond...