ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,751, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Lateral phase change memory cell" was invented by Timothy Mathew Philip (Albany, N.Y.), Jin Ping Han (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Ching-Tzu Chen (Ossining, N.Y.), Kevin W. Brew (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Injo Ok (Loudonville, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure including an inner electrode and an outer electrode on a substrate and a phase change material layer, the phase change material layer vertically aligned above both the inner electrode and the outer electrode. A structure including an inner electrode and an outer electrode on a ...