US Patent Issued to XILINX on Sept. 8 for "Programmable hybrid memory and capacitive device in a DRAM process" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,179, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Programmable hybrid memory and capacitive device in a DRAM process" was invented by Zachary Blair (San Jose, Calif.), Gabriel Loh (Bellevue, Wash.) and Paul Hartke (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DRAM fabrication process for producing a semiconductor die adapted for having the ability to be both a hybrid memory and power supply capacitance. DRAM arrays on a semiconductor die may be individually selected to function as either a memory or as supplemental capacitance on a power distribution network serving circuits on one or more semiconductor d...