ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,089, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Yuki Sakaguchi (Yokohama, Japan), Tatsuo Izumi (Yokohama, Japan) and Masashi Yoshida (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a first wiring, a first memory transistor connected to the first wiring, a first transistor connected between the first wiring and the first memory transistor, a second transistor connected between the first wiring and the first transistor, and second to fourth wirings respectively connected to gate electrodes of the first memory transistor, the first trans...