ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,108, issued on May 6, was assigned to Adeia Semiconductor Technologies LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"3D memory circuit" was invented by Javier A. DeLaCruz (San Jose, Calif.) and David E. Fisch (Corrales, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a three-dimensional (3D) circuit that has data lines of one or more memory circuits on a different IC die than the IC die(s) on which the memory blocks of the memory circuit(s) are defined. In some embodiments, the 3D circuit includes a first IC die with a first set of two or more memory blocks that have a first set of data lines. The 3D circuit also includes a second IC die tha...