US Patent Issued to Intel on March 11 for "Encoding additional states in a three-dimensional crosspoint memory architecture" (California, Arizona, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,372, issued on March 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Encoding additional states in a three-dimensional crosspoint memory architecture" was invented by Rouhollah Mousavi Iraei (Albuquerque, N.M.), Kiran Pangal (Fremont, Calif.), Saad P. Monasa (Sacramento, Calif.), Mini Goel (Milpitas, Calif.), Raymond Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.) and Hemant P. Rao (Albuquerque, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state may be encoded into a memory cell comprising a phase change material (PM) region and a select device (SD) region by: applying a first current in the memory cell over a first time period, wherein the first curren...