US Patent Issued to Kepler Computing on May 12 for "Manganese or scandium doped ferroelectric device and bit-cell" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,350, issued on May 12, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Manganese or scandium doped ferroelectric device and bit-cell" was invented by Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.), Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.) and Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Moraga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a low power, high-density a 1T-1C (one transistor and one capacitor) memory bit-cell, wherein the capacitor comprises a pillar structure having ferroelectric material (perovskite, improper ferroelectric, or hexagonal ferroelectric) and conductive oxides as electrodes. In various embodiments, one layer of the conductive o...