US Patent Issued to Lodestar Licensing Group on Aug. 19 for "Microelectronic devices and memory devices including support pillars" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,169, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Lodestar Licensing Group LLC (Evanston, Ill.).

"Microelectronic devices and memory devices including support pillars" was invented by Shuangqiang Luo (Boise, Idaho), Indra V. Chary (Boise, Idaho) and Justin B. Dorhout (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure comprising alternating conductive structures and insulative structures arranged in tiers, the tiers individually comprising one of the conductive structures and one of the insulative structures, first support pillar structures extending through the stack structure within a first regio...