ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,063, issued on April 8.

"Integrated assemblies and methods of forming integrated assemblies" was invented by Jordan D. Greenlee (Boise, Idaho) and John D. Hopkins (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a second deck over a first deck. The first deck has first memory cell levels, and the second deck has second memory cell levels. A pair of cell-material-pillars pass through the first and second decks. Memory cells are along the first and second memory cell levels. The cell-material-pillars are a first pillar and a second pillar. An intermediate level is between the first ...