US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 14 for "Microelectronic devices including vertical inverters, and electronic systems" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,520, issued on April 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Microelectronic devices including vertical inverters, and electronic systems" was invented by Kamal M. Karda (Boise, Idaho), Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy (Boise, Idaho), Karthik Sarpatwari (Boise, Idaho) and Haitao Liu (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectronic device comprises vertical inverter comprising a pillar structure vertically extending above a first conductive line. The pillar structure comprises a first vertical transistor vertically overlying and in electrical communication with the first conductive line, a second conduc...