US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 12 for "Method and apparatus providing multi-planed array memory device" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,812, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Method and apparatus providing multi-planed array memory device" was invented by David H. Wells (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional variable resistance memory array and method of forming the same. The memory array has memory cells in multiple planes in three dimensions. The planes of the memory cells include shared interconnect lines, dually connected to driving and sensing circuits, that are used for addressing the cells for programming and reading. The memory array is formed using only a single patterned mask per central arr...