US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Three-dimensional memory device with separated source lines and method of making the same" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,463, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional memory device with separated source lines and method of making the same" was invented by James Kai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Johann Alsmeier (San Jose, Calif.), Lito De La Rama (San Jose, Calif.), Masaaki Higashitani (Cupertino, Calif.), Koichi Matsuno (Fremont, Calif.), Marika Gunji-Yoneoka (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Makoto Koto (Yokkaichi, Japan), Hisakazu Otoi (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Masanori Tsutsumi (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and ...