ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,315, issued on July 29, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Resistive memory element arrays with shared electrode strips" was invented by Venkatesh Gopinath (Fremont, Calif.), Bipul C. Paul (Mechanicville, N.Y.) and Xiaoli Hu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structures that include resistive memory elements and methods of forming a structure that includes resistive memory elements. The structure comprises a first plurality of resistive memory elements including a first plurality of bottom electrodes, a first top electrode, and a first switching layer between the first top electrode and the first pluralit...