ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,461, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-deck non-volatile memory architecture with improved address line driver circuitry" was invented by William K. Waller (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a non-volatile memory apparatus includes a plurality of memory tiles that each include a set of main memory tiles arranged in rows and columns and a set of row termination tiles at the ends of the rows and a set of column termination tiles at the ends of the columns. Each main memory tile includes a set of address lines orthogonal to one another, memory cells between the over...