US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 27 for "Microelectronic devices including contact structures, and related memory devices, electronic systems, and methods" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,913, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Microelectronic devices including contact structures, and related memory devices, electronic systems, and methods" was invented by Darwin A. Clampitt (Wilder, Idaho), Shruthi Kumara Vadivel (Boise, Idaho) and David Neumeyer (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure comprising a vertically alternating sequence of conductive structures and insulative structures arranged in tiers, the stack structure divided into block structures horizontally extending in parallel in a first direction and horizontally s...