US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Sept. 15 for "Memory device with memory pillar inside conductor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,301, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory device with memory pillar inside conductor" was invented by Hiroshi Maejima (Tokyo) and Toshifumi Hashimoto (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first conductor extends along first and second axes. A first memory pillar is provided in the first conductor and includes a first semiconductor and a charge accumulation layer. A second conductor extends along the second axis and is in contact with the first memory pillar. A third conductor extends along the first and second axes and is arranged with a distance from the first conductor along the second axis...