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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,660, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor storage device" was invented by Kazuki Akamine (Yokkaichi Mie, Japan) and Shigeki Kobayashi (Kuwana Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor storage device includes: a stacked body in which a plurality of electrically conductive layers is stacked with an insulating layer interposed in between; and a circuit section that is provided to overlap with the stacked body in a stack direction. The stacked body includes a memory section in which a plurality of memory cells is disposed and a staircase section in which the plurality of electrically con...