ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,554, issued on April 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-storage element single-transistor crosspoint memory systems at low temperatures" was invented by Abhishek Anil Sharma (Portland, Ore.), Wilfred Gomes (Portland, Ore.), Anand Murthy (Portland, Ore.), Sagar Suthram (Portland, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bits are stored in an array with multiple storage elements sharing a single access transistor and a storage line coupled to the transistor. A single common select transistor accesses information stored in an array of storage elements. Other arrays of storage eleme...