US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 14 for "Apparatus having segmented data lines and methods of their operation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,159, issued on April 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatus having segmented data lines and methods of their operation" was invented by Vikas Rana (Pehowa, India) and Kalyan Chakravarthy Kavalipurapu (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory might include an array of memory cells and a data line selectively connected to a plurality of memory cells of the array of memory cells. The data line might include a first data line segment corresponding to a first subset of memory cells of the plurality of memory cells and a second data line segment corresponding to a second subset of memory cells ...