US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 4 for "Global column repair with local column decoder circuitry, and related apparatuses, methods, and computing systems" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,346, issued on March 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Global column repair with local column decoder circuitry, and related apparatuses, methods, and computing systems" was invented by Christopher G. Wieduwilt (Boise, Idaho) and Fatma Arzum Simsek-Ege (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Global column repair with local column decoder circuitry and related apparatuses, methods, and computing systems are disclosed. An apparatus includes global column repair circuitry including column address drivers corresponding to respective ones of column planes of a memory array. The column address drivers are conf...