ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,446, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System design for low temperature memory" was invented by Sagar Suthram (Portland, Ore.), Abhishek Sharma (Portland, Ore.), Wilfred Gomes (Portland, Ore.), Pushkar Ranade (San Jose, Calif.), Kuljit S. Bains (Olympia, Wash.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.) and Anand Murthy (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can be designed with memory to operate in a low temperature environment. The low temperature memory can be customized for low temperature operation, having a gate stack to adjust a work function of the memory cell transistors to reduce the ...