ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,168, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SUNRISE MEMORY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"3-dimensional NOR memory array with very fine pitch: device and method" was invented by Eli Harari (Saratoga, Calif.), Wu-Yi Henry Chien (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott Brad Herner (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A NOR memory string formed by with a first conductor and a second conductor including first and second storage transistors sharing a common drain region and a common source region, the first conductor serving as gate electrode to the first storage transistor and the second conductor serving as gate electrode to the second storage tr...