US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 26 for "Composite material phase change memory cell" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,546, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Composite material phase change memory cell" was invented by Timothy Mathew Philip (Albany, N.Y.), Kevin W. Brew (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Caitlin Camille Stuckey (Albany, N.Y.), Rebecca Colby Martin (Greenfield Center, N.Y.), Robert Robison (Rexford, N.Y.) and Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase change memory (PCM) cell includes a first electrode comprised of a first electrically conductive material, a second electrode comprised of a second electrically conductive material, and a phase change secti...