US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on April 29 for "Two-terminal memory device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,895, issued on April 29, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Two-terminal memory device" was invented by Ui-Yeon Won (Ansan-si, South Korea), Jong-Seok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sang-Hyeok Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-terminal memory device includes: a substrate; an extended drain extending from a drain and a lower surface of the drain and laminated on the substrate; a ferroelectric layer connected to the drain and covering the extended drain and the substrate; and a source laminated on the ferroelectric layer to face the drain."

The...