ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,797, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"NOR gate based local access line deselect signal generation" was invented by Yasir Mohsin Husain (Folsom, Calif.), Everardo Flores III (Penryn, Calif.) and Neeladri Sain (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device comprising a plurality of first global access lines, second global access lines, first local access lines, and second local access lines; and a plurality of memory cells, wherein a memory cell is coupled to one of the first local access lines and one of the second local access lines. The memory device further comprises a plurali...