US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 20 for "Logic and memory device with common vertical channel" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,453, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Logic and memory device with common vertical channel" was invented by Min Gyu Sung (Latham, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Julien Frougier (Albany, N.Y.) and Huimei Zhou (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes an illustrative semiconductor IC device that includes a integrated logic microdevice and a memory microdevice that share the same vertical channel. By utilizing the same vertical channel, the overall footprint area of the integrated logic microdevice and the memory microdevice is relatively...