US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Memory cell with a variable element and a phase change memory" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,564, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Memory cell with a variable element and a phase change memory" was invented by Ning Li (White Plains, N.Y.), Andrew Herbert Simon (Fishkill, N.Y.), Injo Ok (Albany, N.Y.), Kangguo Cheng (Schenectady, N.Y.), Timothy Mathew Philip (Albany, N.Y.), Kevin W. Brew (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Jin Ping Han (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Juntao Li (Cohoes, N.Y.) and Nicole Saulnier (Slingerlands, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical device includes a first electrode in series with a second electrode. A phase change memory (PCM) is in series with the ...