US Patent Issued to HRL LABORATORIES on Oct. 14 for "Reconfigurable devices with multi-layer composite phase change materials" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,477, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Reconfigurable devices with multi-layer composite phase change materials" was invented by Jeong-Sun Moon (Moorpark, Calif.), Hwa Chang Seo (Malibu, Calif.) and Kyung-Ah Son (Moorpark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device having: a multilayer composite phase change material structure with: a bottom PCM layer of a first SbTe PCM material having a first metallic doping; a first composite PCM layer on the bottom PCM layer, wherein the first composite PCM layer comprises at least: a first composite layer, comprising said first PCM material having a s...