US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 24 for "Circuitry arrangement in a floorplan of a memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,853, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Circuitry arrangement in a floorplan of a memory device" was invented by Yuki Mizutani (Milpitas, Calif.) and Masaaki Higashitani (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory device includes a die with a first set of planes and a second set of planes. The planes are rectangular in shape with a major dimension and a minor dimension. The die includes a CMOS layer with at least one common peripheral circuitry area, and each of the planes includes a non-common peripheral circuitry area in the CMOS layer. Each plane of the first set of ...