Patent ID: 8619453

Claim:
A non-volatile storage system, comprising: a substrate; a monolithic three dimensional memory array of memory cells positioned above and not in the substrate; a plurality of word lines connected together and connected to a subset of the memory cells; a plurality of global bit lines; a plurality of vertically oriented bit lines connected to the memory cells, the memory cells in combination with the vertically oriented bit lines and the word lines form a continuous mesh; a plurality of double gated vertically oriented select devices that are above and not in the substrate, the double gated vertically oriented select devices are connected to the vertically oriented bit lines and the global bit lines, when the double gated vertically oriented select devices are activated the vertically oriented bit lines are in communication with the global bit lines; and a plurality of select lines connected to both gates of the double gated vertically oriented select devices, each vertically oriented select device is connected to two of the select lines so that both of the two select lines must diving an â€œonâ€ signal for the respective double gated vertically oriented select devices to be activated.