US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 23 for "Barrier structure for preventing etching to control circuitry" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,269, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Barrier structure for preventing etching to control circuitry" was invented by John Hopkins (Meridian, Idaho), Jordan D. Greenlee (Boise, Idaho), Daniel Billingsley (Boise, Idaho) and Alyssa N. Scarbrough (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for a barrier structure for preventing removal of, such as etching to, control circuitry are described. A memory device may include control circuitry over a substrate and for accessing a memory array and contact regions configured to couple with the control circuitry. The memory...