ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,425, issued on May 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Stacked conductive bridge random access memory and access devices" was invented by Hiroyuki Miyazoe (White Plains, N.Y.), Gloria Wing Yun Fraczak (Bayside, N.Y.) and Takashi Ando (Eastchester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure comprises a conductive bridge random access memory device and an access device connected in series with the conductive bridge random access memory device. The conductive bridge random access memory device and the access device are arranged in a vertical stack. The vertical stack has a sidewal...