US Patent Issued to Kioxia on July 7 for "Semiconductor memory device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,171, issued on July 7, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Hideyuki Kataoka (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor storage device includes a memory string including memory transistors and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to in response to a first command, perform a first read operation, and in response to a second command received during the first read operation, perform a second read operation. During the first read operation, a voltage of a first selected word line is decreased from a read pass voltage to a first read voltage and th...