ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,514,001, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Synaptic device and its manufacturing method" was invented by Yong-Duck Chung (Daejeon, South Korea), Woo Jung Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Daehyung Cho (Daejeon, South Korea) and Taeha Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of manufacturing a synaptic device. The method includes forming a first electrode, forming a synaptic mimic layer including a hole transport layer and an electron transport layer on the first electrode, and forming a second electrode on the synaptic mimic l...