US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 18 for "Spike based programming of a memory cell to reset state" (New Mexico, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,945, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Spike based programming of a memory cell to reset state" was invented by Rouhollah Mousavi Iraei (Albuquerque, N.M.), Mini Goel (Milpitas, Calif.), Hemant P. Rao (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Raymond Zeng (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device comprising a plurality of memory cells, a memory cell of the plurality of memory cells comprising a phase change material (PM) region and a select device (SD) region in series with the PM region; a first address line and a second address line coupled to the memory cell; and memory controller circuit...