US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 8 for "Hydrogen and hydrocarbon plasma treatment of phase change memory material" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,410, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hydrogen and hydrocarbon plasma treatment of phase change memory material" was invented by Luxherta Buzi (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Robert L. Bruce (White Plains, N.Y.), John M. Papalia (New York) and Lynne Marie Gignac (Beacon, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for sidewall passivation and removal of redeposited materials and processing damage from phase change memory materials are provided. In one aspect, a phase change memory device includes: one or more phase change memory cells, where each of the phase change memory cells includes...