US Patent Issued to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on Aug. 19 for "Stochastic memristive devices based on arrays of magnetic tunnel junctions" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,463, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"Stochastic memristive devices based on arrays of magnetic tunnel junctions" was invented by Pedram Khalili Amiri (Wilmette, Ill.) and Giovanni Finocchio (Messina, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a Stochastic memristive array (SMA) device based on arrays of voltage-controlled magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are disclosed. The SMA device is based on an array of stochastic (low energy barrier) magnetic tunnel junctions that are connected in parallel which simultaneously exhibits features that include (i) stochasticity and (ii) memrist...