US Patent Issued to Intel on May 5 for "Memory device with peripheral circuitry which extends under a back end memory array" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,986, issued on May 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory device with peripheral circuitry which extends under a back end memory array" was invented by Pulkit Jain (Hillsboro, Ore.), Juan Alzate Vinasco (Tigard, Ore.), Liqiong Wei (Portland, Ore.), Ozdemir Akin (Beaverton, Ore.) and Fatih Hamzaoglu (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for accessing memory arrays which are formed in a back end of line (BEOL) of an integrated circuit (IC) die. In an embodiment, a differential sense amplifier of the IC die is coupled to a first array and a second array via a first bit line and a s...