US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 16 for "Techniques for forming a device with scribe asymmetry" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,179, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Techniques for forming a device with scribe asymmetry" was invented by Anna Maria Conti (Milan) and Raj K. Bansal (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for forming a device with scribe asymmetry are described. Circuits (e.g., arrays of memory cells) may be printed on a wafer and separated by scribes of various widths to increase an array efficiency of a fabrication process. For example, a scribe that extends in a first direction may have a width in a second direction. A first subset of scribes may have a...