US Patent Issued to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) on Aug. 25 for "Non-volatile data storage medium and system" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,843, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Non-volatile data storage medium and system" was invented by Ruben Ricca (Cadenazzo, Switzerland), Yves Bellouard (Lutry, Switzerland) and Martin Vetterli (Grandvaux, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage medium (2) comprising a stacked plurality of layers (9), each layer composed of a layer material selected from a group comprising at least two different dielectric materials, adjacent layers being formed of different materials, and at least one of the layers, that is not a top layer, constituting an i...