US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 4 for "Apparatuses including semiconductive pillar structures, and related methods, memory devices, and electronic systems" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,694, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses including semiconductive pillar structures, and related methods, memory devices, and electronic systems" was invented by Mitsunari Sukekawa (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises semiconductive pillar structures each individually comprising a digit line contact region disposed laterally between two storage node contact regions. At least one semiconductive pillar structure of the semiconductive pillar structures comprises a first end portion comprising a first storage node contact region, a second end portion comp...