US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Feb. 3 for "Electronic devices comprising blocking regions, and related electronic systems and methods" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,311, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Electronic devices comprising blocking regions, and related electronic systems and methods" was invented by John D. Hopkins (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device comprising one or more blocking regions. The electronic device also comprises a source stack comprising one or more conductive materials, a source contact vertically adjacent to the source stack, and a doped semiconductive material vertically adjacent to the source contact. Tiers of alternating conductive materials and dielectric materials are vertically adjacent to t...