ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,470, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Structures and methods for memory cells" was invented by Sean T. Ma (Portland, Ore.), Aaron D. Lilak (Beaverton, Ore.), Abhishek A. Sharma (Hillsboro, Ore.), Van H. Le (Beaverton, Ore.), Seung Hoon Sung (Portland, Ore.), Gilbert W. Dewey (Beaverton, Ore.), Benjamin Chu-Kung (Portland, Ore.), Jack T. Kavalieros (Portland, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are memory cells and memory arrays, as well as related methods and devices. For example, in some embodiments, a memory device may include: a support having ...