ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,581, issued on June 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Embedded memory IC's with power supply droop circuitry coupled to ferroelectric capacitors" was invented by Wilfred Gomes (Portland, Ore.), Abhishek Anil Sharma (Portland, Ore.) and Uygar Avci (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuits with embedded memory that includes ferroelectric capacitors having first conductor structures coupled to an underlying array of access transistors, and second conductors coupled to independent plate lines that are shunted by a metal strap having a pitch similar to that of the capacitors. The independent ...