US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Sept. 8 for "Semiconductor memory device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,181, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Toshifumi Hashimoto (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory plane region includes a first structure and a second structure having conductive layers, and includes a first memory region to a third memory region, a first region between the first memory region and the second memory region, and a second region between the second memory region and the third memory region. The first structure comprises first via contact electrodes in the first region. The second structure comprises second via contact electrodes in the...