US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Charlotte on July 8 for "Integrated circuits with single-functional-unit level integration of electronic and photonic elements" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,650, issued on July 8, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Integrated circuits with single-functional-unit level integration of electronic and photonic elements" was invented by Yong Zhang (Charlotte, N.C.), Antardipan Pal (Charlotte, N.C.) and Dennis Yau (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example memory devices and example methods for using memory devices are described. An example memory device may include a first electrical bitline, a second electrical bitline, a bitcell, and an optical waveguide wordline. The bitcell is configured to store a bit value and includes storage...