ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,374, issued on March 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Harutaka Honda (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes: a first memory mat; a second memory mat adjacent to the first memory mat; a peripheral circuit between the first memory mat and the second memory mat, the peripheral circuit defining a first boundary to the first memory mat and a second boundary to the second memory mat and including a plurality of wiring patterns in a wiring layer; and at least one dummy pattern in the wiring layer arranged on or along the first boundary."
The p...