US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 23 for "Monolithic conductive column in a semiconductor device and associated methods" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,516, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Monolithic conductive column in a semiconductor device and associated methods" was invented by Wei Zhou (Boise, Idaho), Kyle K. Kirby (Eagle, Idaho), Bret K. Street (Meridian, Idaho) and Kunal R. Parekh (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device having monolithic conductive columns, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. The semiconductor device can include a semiconductor substrate, a conductive pad, an opening, a non-conductive liner, and a plug of non-conductive material. The conductive pad may be at a surf...