US Patent Issued to Kioxia on July 15 for "MTJ operation methods employing opposite polarity recovery pulse" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,997, issued on July 15, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"MTJ operation methods employing opposite polarity recovery pulse" was invented by Naoki Matsushita (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a memory cell that includes a resistance change element and a switching element that are coupled in series; and a control circuit configured to perform a first operation to bring the resistance change element to a first resistance value based on a first current, a second operation to bring the resistance change element to a second resistance value different from the first...