CEA/CNRS Assigned Patent

Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA), France, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France, has been assigned a patent (9,311,994) developed by Di Pendina, Gregory, Echirolles, France, and Javerliac, Virgile, Grenoble, France, for a “non-volatile memory device.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The invention concerns a memory device comprising: a first memory cell comprising a first resistive non-volatile data storage element programmable to store a first bit of data, and a second memory cell comprising a second resistive non-volatile data storage element programmable to store a second bit of data, wherein said first resistive element is configured to have a first data retention duration, and said second resistive element is configured to have a second data retention duration different from said first data retention duration.“

The patent application was filed on July 4, 2014 (14/324,110).