US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Oct. 27 for "Memory device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,648, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory device" was invented by Takahito Nishimura (Kuwana, Japan), Yugo Masuda (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Shota Uratani (Nishinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device according to an embodiment includes a memory device including first and second plate-shaped members, columnar members, and word lines. The plurality of columnar members are arranged in a matrix of K rows (K is an integer equal to or greater than 4) between the first and second plate-shaped members. The columnar members include memory pillars and dummy pillars. The memory pillars are arranged ...