ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,188, issued on June 17, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Two-dimensional material-based selector with stack unit, memory unit, array, and method of operating the same" was invented by Huai Lin (Beijing), Guozhong Xing (Beijing) and Ming Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-dimensional material-based selector includes: a stack unit, wherein the stack unit has a metal-two-dimensional semiconductor-metal structure comprising a two-dimensional semiconductor layer, and metal layers arranged on an upper surface and a lower surface of the two-dimensional semiconductor layer,...