US Patent Issued to MACRONIX International on March 31 for "Three-dimensional memory and operating method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,284, issued on March 31, was assigned to MACRONIX International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Three-dimensional memory and operating method thereof" was invented by Ming-Hung Wu (Nantou County, Taiwan), Wei-Chen Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Hang-Ting Lue (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a 3D memory and an operating method thereof. In the 3D memory, a stacked structure includes gate layers and insulating layers alternately stacked. Each gate layer includes first and second gates spaced from each other. Each annular channel layer corresponds to one of the gate layers and is disposed between adjacen...