ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,993, issued on May 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Distributed memory data path for circuit under array" was invented by Makoto Kitagawa (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device may include various circuitry including multiple memory banks and a circuit under array. The circuit under array may include a number of control blocks each coupling to a respective memory bank. The control blocks may route data and commands to the memory cells of the memory arrays of the respective memory banks. In particular, the control blocks may include routing circuitry including column routing circuits, ...