US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 23 for "Microelectronic devices, and related memory devices and electronic systems" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,096, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Microelectronic devices, and related memory devices and electronic systems" was invented by Lars P. Heineck (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectronic device includes a memory array region, a control logic region overlying the memory array region, and a pad region overlying the control logic region. The memory array region includes a stack structure including vertically alternating conductive structures and insulating structures; vertically extending strings of memory cells within the stack structure; at least one source structure vert...