US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 7 for "Semiconductor device having row decoder circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,179, issued on July 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Semiconductor device having row decoder circuit" was invented by Katsunari Murayama (Sagamihara, Japan), Mamoru Nishizaki (Yokohama, Japan), Manami Mizukane (Sagamihara, Japan) and Hidekazu Noguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes first and second memory cell arrays arranged in a first direction; and a plurality of first and second sub word line drivers, a plurality of main word line drivers, and a plurality of level shift circuits each arranged on an intermediate region between the first and second memory cell arrays. The...