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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2020
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jaydip Bharatkumar Patel, Folsom, CA (US);

Everardo Flores, III, Folsom, CA (US);

Khaled Hasnat, San Jose, CA (US);

Max F. Hineman, Boise, ID (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/4099 (2006.01); G11C 11/4094 (2006.01); G11C 11/4074 (2006.01); G11C 11/408 (2006.01); G11C 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/4099 (2013.01); G11C 5/025 (2013.01); G11C 11/4074 (2013.01); G11C 11/4085 (2013.01); G11C 11/4094 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, memory device and system. The memory device includes an active memory array including memory cells and address lines, the address lines including bitlines (BLs) and wordlines (WLs), each of the memory cells connected between one of the BLs and one of the WLs; a dummy array including dummy address lines, the dummy address lines including dummy BLs and dummy WLs; at least one shorting structure extending across and in electrical contact with at least some of the dummy address lines to electrically short the at least some of the dummy address lines together; and at least one contact structure extending from the dummy array and electrically coupled to the at least some of the dummy address lines to connect the at least some of the dummy address lines to a predetermined voltage.


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