ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,281, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TECHIFAB GMBH (Dresden, Germany).

"Devices and methods for operating a memristive element" was invented by Sahitya Varma Vegesna (Jena, Germany) and Heidemarie Schmidt (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a memristive element; and a write circuit to write the memristive element into a memristive state of a plurality of memristive states by a write operation, wherein the memristive state has a characteristic flux and/or a characteristic charge; wherein the characteristic flux corresponds to a characteristic voltage drop over the memristive element applied for a sa...