US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on June 30 for "Memory device including word line contact strips and methods of forming the same" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,289, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Memory device including word line contact strips and methods of forming the same" was invented by Mark D. Kraman (San Jose, Calif.), Ruogu Matthew Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Li-Wei Lo (San Jose, Calif.), Koichi Matsuno (Fremont, Calif.), Jixin Yu (Milpitas, Calif.), Kazuhiro Shiraishi (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Takayuki Maekura (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a first alternating stack including first insulating layers and first electrically conductive layers that are interlaced along a vertical direction, where a ...