US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 18 for "Ovonic threshold switch selectors with electrodes including carbon and metal" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,557, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Ovonic threshold switch selectors with electrodes including carbon and metal" was invented by Oleksandr Mosendz (Campbell, Calif.), James Reiner (Palo Alto, Calif.), Bruce Terris (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and John Read (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory material portion, and an ovonic threshold switch selector element. The ovonic threshold switch selector element includes a first carbon-containing electrode comprising carbon and a metal, a second carbon-containing electrode comprising the carbon and the m...