ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,832, issued on June 24, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Circuitry borrowing for memory arrays" was invented by Andrea Martinelli (Bergamo, Italy), Francesco Mastroianni (Melzo, Italy) and Kiyoshi Nakai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for circuitry borrowing in memory arrays are described. In one example, a host device may transmit an access command associated with data for a first memory section to a memory device. The first memory section may be located between a second memory section and a third memory section. A first set of circuitry shared by the first memory section an...