US Patent Issued to Lodestar Licensing Group on July 21 for "Microelectronic devices including staircase structures, and related memory devices" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,194, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lodestar Licensing Group LLC (Evanston, Ill.).

"Microelectronic devices including staircase structures, and related memory devices" was invented by Lifang Xu (Boise, Idaho), John D. Hopkins (Meridian, Idaho), Roger W. Lindsay (Boise, Idaho) and Shuangqiang Luo (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming isolated nitride structures on steps of stair step structures comprising stacked tiers comprising alternating levels of a first insulative material and a second insulative material, forming a photoresist material over some of the st...