ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,266, issued on May 20, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Storage device" was invented by Shigeyuki Hirayama (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Sasaki (Yokkaichi Mie, Japan), Yukihiro Nomura (Tokyo) and Tsunehiro Ino (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a resistance change storage layer between the first and second electrodes. The storage layer is either in a first resistance state or in a second resistance state having a resistance higher than the first resistance state and contains at least two elements selected from a group consisting of...