ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,930, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory array decoding and interconnects" was invented by Hernan A. Castro (Shingle Springs, Calif.), Stephen W. Russell (Boise, Idaho) and Stephen H. Tang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for thin film transistors and related fabrication techniques are described. The thin film transistors may access two or more decks of memory cells disposed in a cross-point architecture. The fabrication techniques may use one or more patterns of vias formed at a top layer of a composite stack, which may facilitate building the thin fi...