ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,767, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated planar transistors and memory cell array architectures" was invented by Abhishek A. Sharma (Portland, Ore.) and Wilfred Gomes (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory device architectures including integrated high voltage planar transistor support circuitry underlying memory cell arrays are discussed related to improving density and device performance Such memory device architectures include planar transistors having wide band gap channel materials integrated with memory cell arrays using a number of metallization layers. The metalliza...