US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 4 for "Textured cobalt aluminum/magnesium-aluminum-oxide pedestal for memory devices" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,957, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Textured cobalt aluminum/magnesium-aluminum-oxide pedestal for memory devices" was invented by Alexander Reznicek (Troy, N.Y.), Guohan Hu (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Matthias Georg Gottwald (Ridgefield, Conn.) and Stephen L Brown (Carmel, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device including a pedestal structure containing a cobalt aluminum layer and a magnesium-aluminum-oxide containing base layer both of which have a (001) crystal orientation is provided. The memory device further includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) pillar conta...