ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,933, issued on July 22, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Unipolar programming of memory cells" was invented by Innocenzo Tortorelli (Cernusco Sul Naviglio, Italy), Mattia Robustelli (Milan), Alessandro Sebastiani (Piacenza, Italy), Matteo Impala' (Milan) and Fabio Pellizzer (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for unipolar programming of memory cells in a semiconductor device. A memory has a plurality of self-selecting memory cells and circuitry configured to program a self-selecting memory cell of the plurality of self-selecting memory cells to a first dat...