ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,282, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Lodestar Licensing Group LLC (Evanston, Ill.).
"Microelectronic devices, memory devices, and 3D NAND flash memory devices" was invented by Haitao Liu (Boise, Idaho) and Kunal R. Parekh (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure, cell pillar structures, an active body structure, digit line structures, and control logic devices. The stack structure comprises vertically neighboring tiers, each of the vertically neighboring tiers comprising a conductive structure and an insulative structure vertically neighboring the conductive structure. The c...