Inventor

Fujio Masuoka

Patents indexed

Year range

1985

Associated with

Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co Ltd

Years active

1985

Total patents

Most recent

1985

Frequent collaborator

Hisakazu Iizuka

Domains

semiconductorsdata-storagemobilecomputingmemory

Activity by decade

1980s

Patents

US 4531203·1985·Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co Ltd

NAND Flash — The Memory in Every SSD, iPhone, and USB Drive

Fujio Masuoka's 1987 Toshiba patent describes NAND flash memory — the non-volatile storage technology in every smartphone, SSD, and USB drive, invented over a weekend and presented at a conference Toshiba tried to block.