Sunrise Memory Assigned Patent

Sunrise Memory Corporation, Los Gatos, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,381,378) developed by Harari, Eli, Saratoga, CA, for a “three-dimensional vertical NOR flash thin-film transistor strings.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A memory structure, includes active columns of polysilicon formed above a semiconductor substrate, each active column includes one or more vertical NOR strings, with each NOR string having thin-film storage transistors sharing a local source line and a local bit line, the local bit line is connected by one segment of a segmented global bit line to a sense amplifier provided in the semiconductor substrate.”

The patent application was filed on January 18, 2019 (16/252,301).