US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 8 for "Microelectronic devices including interconnections, related memory devices and electronic systems" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,641, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Microelectronic devices including interconnections, related memory devices and electronic systems" was invented by Shuangqiang Luo (Boise, Idaho), Indra V. Chary (Boise, Idaho) and Mithun Kumar Ramasahayam (Merdian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure comprising blocks each including a vertically alternating sequence of conductive material and insulative material arranged in tiers, at least one of the blocks comprising: a memory array region having vertically extending strings of memory cells within a ...