US Patent Issued to Kepler Computing on May 13 for "Memory array with buried or backside word-line" (Oregon, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,297, issued on May 13, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Memory array with buried or backside word-line" was invented by Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.), Mustansir Yunus Mukadam (Seattle), Noriyuki Sato (Hillsboro, Ore.), Tanay Gosavi (Portland, Ore.), Niloy Mukherjee (San Ramon, Calif.), Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.) and Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory is described having a plurality of bit-cells organized in a row or column. An individual bit-cell of the plurality of bit-cells includes an access transistor and a plurality of capacitors. A word-line is po...