ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,945, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for single and multi memory cell architectures" was invented by Yang Lu (Boise, Idaho), Toby D. Robbs (Boise, Idaho), Christopher J. Kawamura (Boise, Idaho) and Kang-Yong Kim (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Single (1T) and multi (MT) memory cell architectures may be included in a same memory array. In some embodiments, the individual memory cells of the MT memory cells may have a same polarity. In some embodiments, the individual memory cells of the MT memory cells may have complementary polarity. In some examples, dig...