US Patent Issued to Kioxia on June 16 for "Memory device including a plurality of members separating or surrounding a plurality of layer stacks" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,192, issued on June 16, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory device including a plurality of members separating or surrounding a plurality of layer stacks" was invented by Wataru Hasegawa (Yokkaichi, Japan), Takuya Konno (Yokkaichi, Japan), Sachiyo Ito (Kawasaki, Japan) and Ken Furubayashi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory device includes: a first layer stack including first insulating layers arranged in a first direction and spaced apart from one another; second and third layer stacks, each including conductive layers spaced apart from one another and provided at levels of...