ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,399, issued on April 8, was assigned to Crossbar Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Differential programming of two-terminal resistive switching memory with program soaking and adjacent path disablement" was invented by Hagop Nazarian (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Differential programming of multiple resistive switching memory cells defining a bit is disclosed. The differential programming can mitigate invalid data values for the defined bit, referred to herein as an identifier bit. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for detection of a program event(s) for a portion of resistive switching memory cells defining...