US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 19 for "Pillar and word line plate architecture for a memory array" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,180, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Pillar and word line plate architecture for a memory array" was invented by Lorenzo Fratin (Buccinasco, Italy), Enrico Varesi (Milan), Paolo Fantini (Vimercate, Italy) and Thomas M. Graettinger (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for pillar and word line plate architecture for a memory array are described to support a memory array that may include a word line plate at each vertical level of the memory array, where the word line plate may be coupled with each memory cell of a word line tile at the respective level. Th...