ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,365, issued on June 3.
"Proximity heater to lower RRAM forming voltage" was invented by Timothy Mathew Philip (Albany, N.Y.), Injo Ok (Albany, N.Y.), Jin Ping Han (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Ching-Tzu Chen (Ossining, N.Y.) and Kevin W. Brew (Niskayuna, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer memory device includes a bottom electrode, a top electrode, and a memory component arranged between the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The memory component is made of a dielectric solid-state material and is in direct contact with the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The computer memory device further includes a proximity heat...