US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on April 7 for "Field-programmable ferro-diodes for reconfigurable in-memory-computing" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,456, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Field-programmable ferro-diodes for reconfigurable in-memory-computing" was invented by Deep Jariwala (Philadelphia), Roy H. Olsson III (Phoenixville, Pa.), Eric Andrew Stach (Swarthmore, Pa.), Xiwen Liu (Philadelphia), Dixiong Wang (Milpitas, Calif.), Jeffrey Zheng (Philadelphia) and Merrilyn Mercy Adzo Fiagbenu (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ferroelectric diodes comprising materials such as aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN) or hafnium zirconium oxide (HfZrO2) may be formed atop semiconductor structures such as CMOS ...