US Patent Issued to Winbond Electronics on May 26 for "Three-dimensional flash memory device and method for forming the same" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,780, issued on May 26, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Three-dimensional flash memory device and method for forming the same" was invented by Frederick Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional (3D) flash memory device is provided. The 3D flash memory device includes a substrate, a T-shaped polysilicon pillar, a select line pillar, a bit line pillar, first and second control gates, first and second floating gates, and first and second high-k dielectric pillars. The select line pillar and the bit line pillar are vertically disposed adjacent to first opposite sidewal...