ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,656, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Integrated circuitry, memory circuitry comprising strings of memory cells, and methods used in forming integrated circuitry" was invented by Richard T. Housley (Boise, Idaho), Quinn L. Roberts (Boise, Idaho), Shruthi Kumara Vadivel (Boise, Idaho), Harsh Narendrakumar Jain (Boise, Idaho), Tien Minh Quan Tran (Singapore), Zhen Feng Yow (Singapore), Wei Deng Leong (Singapore), Kah Sing Chooi (Singapore) and Nils Monserud (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method used in forming integrated circuitry comprises forming a stack comprising ve...