US Patent Issued on July 15 for "Memory arrays comprising strings of memory cells and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,975, issued on July 15.

"Memory arrays comprising strings of memory cells and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells" was invented by John D. Hopkins (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming a conductor tier comprising conductor material on a substrate. A stack is formed comprising vertically-alternating first tiers and second tiers above the conductor tier. The stack comprises laterally-spaced memory-block regions having horizontally-elongated trenches there-between. Channel-material strings extend t...