ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,187, issued on May 26, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Apparatus to reduce polarization targets or improve memory density for non-linear polar material based memory" was invented by Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.), Erik Unterborn (Cary, N.C.), Biswajeet Guha (Hillsboro, Ore.), Pramod Kolar (Cary, N.C.), Mustansir Yunus Mukadam (Seattle), Darshak Doshi (Sunnyside, Calif.), Tanay Gosavi (Portland, Ore.), Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.), Debo Olaosebikan (San Francisco) and Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method and apparatus to reduce electric di...