US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Sept. 8 for "Storage device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,404, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Storage device" was invented by Takeshi Iwasaki (Kuwana Mie, Japan), Zhu Qi (Yokkaichi Mie, Japan), Katsuyoshi Komatsu (Yokkaichi Mie, Japan) and Jieqiong Zhang (Chiyoda Tokyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a third conductive layer, a variable resistance layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, and a switching layer disposed between the second conductive layer and the third conductive layer. The second conductive layer is disposed between the fir...