ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,669, issued on July 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Discharge circuits" was invented by Kenneth W. Marr (Boise, Idaho), James E. Davis (Meridian, Idaho) and Chiara Cerafogli (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discharge circuit includes a transistor and a metal resistor connected to the transistor. The transistor includes a plurality of unit cells. The metal resistor includes a plurality of resistor portions corresponding to the plurality of unit cells. Each unit cell of the plurality of unit cells has a footprint and a corresponding resistor portion of the plurality of resistor portions is arrang...