US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 26 for "Microelectronic devices, and related memory devices and electronic systems" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,686, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Microelectronic devices, and related memory devices and electronic systems" was invented by Yoshiaki Fukuzumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Shuji Tanaka (Tokyo), Yoshihiko Kamata (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Fujiki (Tokyo) and Tomoharu Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure, pillar structures, a conductive plug structure, a sense transistor, and selector transistors. The stack structure comprises a vertically alternating sequence of conductive material and insulative material, and is divided into blocks ...