ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,519, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Microelectronic devices and memory devices" was invented by Fatma Arzum Simsek-Ege (Boise, Idaho) and Christopher G. Wieduwilt (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectronic device comprises a periphery circuitry region, bank regions, a control circuitry structure, and a memory array structure. The periphery circuitry region comprises a central sub-region, and two arm sub-regions extending from the central sub-region from the central sub-region in a first horizontal direction. Each of the two arm sub-regions has a different length than the...