US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Feb. 17 for "Semiconductor memory device with three-dimensional memory cells" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,290, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device with three-dimensional memory cells" was invented by Fumihiro Kono (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a memory cell array configured having a plurality of memory units, each of the memory units including a plurality of memory cells connected in series, the plurality of memory cells being stacked, the plurality of memory units involving a first memory unit and a second memory unit; and a plurality of bit lines connected to ends o...