US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Sept. 29 for "Semiconductor memory device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,544, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Tetsuaki Utsumi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes word lines, first and second select gate lines, first and second semiconductor columns, first and second bit lines, and first and second transistors. The word lines are arranged in a first direction. The first and second select gate lines extend in a second direction and overlap with the word lines viewed from the first direction. The first and second select gate lines are arranged in the second direction. The first semicond...