US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 8 for "Programmable capacitor memory arrays with stacked access transistors" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,177, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Programmable capacitor memory arrays with stacked access transistors" was invented by Abhishek Anil Sharma (Portland, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Anand Murthy (Portland, Ore.) and Wilfred Gomes (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bits are stored in an array with multiple capacitors per access transistor. An array of multiple ferroelectric capacitors shares a nanowire or nanosheet as a common plate and stores information accessed by a single common select transistor, which uses the nanowire or nanosheet for its channel. In an integrated cir...