ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,140, issued on May 6, 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), Allen McTeer (Eagle, Idaho), Rita J. Klein (Boise, Idaho), John D. Hopkins (Meridian, Idaho), Nancy M. Lomeli (Boise, Idaho), Xiao Li (Boise, Idaho), Alyssa N. Scarbrough (Boise, Idaho), Jiewei Chen (Meridian, Idaho), Naiming Liu (Meridian, Idaho), Shuangqiang Luo (Boise, Idaho), Silvia Borsari (Boise, Idaho), John Mark Meldrim (Boise, Idaho) and Shen Hu (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & T...