US Patent Issued to Kepler Computing on Feb. 25 for "Embedded memory adjacent to non-memory" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,935, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Embedded memory adjacent to non-memory" was invented by Noriyuki Sato (Palo Alto, Calif.), Tanay Gosavi (Portland, Ore.), Niloy Mukherjee (San Ramos, Calif.), Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.), Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.) and Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process integration and patterning flow used to pattern a memory array area for an embedded memory without perturbing a fabricating process for logic circuitries. The fabrication process uses a pocket mask (e.g., a hard mask) to decouple the etching pro...