IBM and Crocus Assigned Patent

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, and Crocus Technology SA, France, has been assigned a patent (9,406,870) developed by Annunziata, Anthony J., Stamford, CT, Prejbeanu, Lucian, Grenoble, France, Trouilloud, Philip L., Norwood, NY, and Worledge, Daniel C., Cortlandt Manor, NY, for a “multibit self-reference thermally assisted MRAM.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A mechanism is provided for a thermally assisted magnetoresistive random access memory device, (TAS-MRAM). A storage layer has an anisotropic axis, in which the storage layer is configured to store a state in off axis positions and on axis positions. The off axis positions are not aligned with the anisotropic axis. A tunnel barrier is disposed on top of the storage layer. A ferromagnetic sense layer is disposed on top of the tunnel barrier.“

The patent application was filed on December 29, 2014 (14/583,983).