US Patent Issued to Kioxia on July 7 for "Semiconductor memory device with even and odd coplanar wordlines" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,195, issued on July 7, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device with even and odd coplanar wordlines" was invented by Yuki Inuzuka (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Akiyuki Murayama (Koto Tokyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a memory pillar; first and second conductive layers on either side of the memory pillar; third and fourth conductive layers and fifth and sixth conductive layer respectively below and above first and second conductive layers; seventh and eighth conductive layers below third and fourth conductive layers; ninth and tenth conductive layers above fif...