US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Oct. 20 for "Storage device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,666, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Storage device" was invented by Hyung-Woo Ahn (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyungjun Cho (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Takuya Shimano (Seoul, South Korea), Naoki Akiyama (Seoul, South Korea) and Kenichi Yoshino (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a stacked layer structure including a switching element, an electrode including a first electrode portion, and a variable resistance element, which are stacked in a first direction, wherein the switching element and the electrode are in contact with each othe...