ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,189, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Integrated assemblies" was invented by Yuan He (Boise, Idaho) and Beau D. Barry (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a memory array over a base. First sense-amplifier-circuitry is associated with the base and includes sense amplifiers directly under the memory array. Vertically-extending digit lines are associated with the memory array and are coupled with the first sense-amplifier-circuitry. Second sense-amplifier-circuitry is associated with the base and is offset from the first sense-ampl...