ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,809, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cyberswarm Inc. (Ploiesti, Romania).

"Programmable resistive memory element and a method of making the same" was invented by Viorel-Georgel Dumitru (Ploiesti, Romania), Cristina Besleaga Stan (Bucharest, Romania), Alin Velea (Bucharest, Romania) and Aurelian-Catalin Galca (Magurele, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable resistive memory element and a method of adjusting a resistance of a programmable resistive memory element are provided. The programmable resistive memory element includes at least one resistive memory element. Each resistive memory element includes an Indium-Galli...