US Patent Issued to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES on Aug. 11 for "Heat dissipation in resistive memories" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,903, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Heat dissipation in resistive memories" was invented by Mohammad Shah Al-Mamun (Blacksburg, Va.) and Marius Orlowski (Pembroke, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device designed to mitigate degradation due to heat, and methods of forming such a device, are described. In one example, a memory cell in a memory device includes an insulating layer formed over a substrate, a horizontal crossbar electrode formed over the insulating layer, a metal oxide resistive memory layer formed over the horizontal crossbar elec...