US Patent Issued to Kioxia on July 28 for "Semiconductor device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,448, issued on July 28, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Ken Komiya (Nagoya Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a stack including first electrode films stacked in a first direction. First and second isolating portions isolate the first electrode films. Third and fourth isolating portions isolate only one or more of the first electrode films in an upper portion of the first electrode films in the stack in a third direction, and are arranged in the third direction between the first and second isolating portions. The column portions include first and sec...