US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 20 for "Apparatuses and methods for conductive coupling of bit lines using bit line switches" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,674, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for conductive coupling of bit lines using bit line switches" was invented by Jiyun Li (Boise, Idaho) and Tae H. Kim (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for providing a conductive path between bit lines using bit line switches are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a memory mat comprising a first plurality of bit lines and a second plurality of bit lines. A plurality of bit line switches can be activated to provide a conductive path between respective ones of the first plurality of bit lines and...