ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,013, issued on July 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Pre-decoder circuitry" was invented by Vijayakrishna J. Vankayala (Allen, Texas), Hari Giduturi (Folsom, Calif.), Jeffrey E. Koelling (Fairview, Texas), Mingdong Cui (Folsom, Calif.) and Ramachandra Rao Jogu (Mckinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for pre-decoder circuitry. An embodiment includes a memory array including a plurality of memory cells, decoder circuitry coupled to the memory array, wherein the decoder circuitry comprises a p-type transistor having a first gate, a first...