ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,443, issued on June 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory arrays comprising strings of memory cells and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells" was invented by Jordan D. Greenlee (Boise, Idaho), David Ross Economy (Boise, Idaho), John D. Hopkins (Meridian, Idaho), Nancy M. Lomeli (Boise, Idaho), Jiewei Chen (Meridian, Idaho), Rita J. Klein (Boise, Idaho), Everett A. McTeer (Eagle, Idaho) and Aaron P. Thurber (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming memory block regions individu...