US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 10 for "Resistive memory with resistance spreading layer" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,632, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Resistive memory with resistance spreading layer" was invented by Paul Michael Solomon (Westchester, N.Y.), Takashi Ando (Eastchester, N.Y.), John Rozen (Hastings on Hudson, N.Y.) and Eduard Albert Cartier (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To limit resistance variability across a resistive random-access memory (RRAM) call, the disclosure includes an RRAM cell with a resistance spreading layer within the RRAM cell between the top and bottom electrodes of the RRAM cell. The resistance spreading layer is in series with and has no impeda...