Micron Assigned Patent

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID has been assigned a patent (8,189,450) developed by Jun Liu, Boise, ID, Mike Violette, Boise, ID, and Gurtej Sandhu, Boise, ID, for a "method and apparatus providing high density chalcogenide-based data storage."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data storage device and methods for storing and reading data are provided. The data storage device includes a data storage medium and second device. The data storage medium has an insulating layer, a first electrode layer over the insulating layer and at least one layer of resistance variable material over the first electrode layer. The second device includes a substrate and at least one conductive point configured to electrically contact the data storage medium."

The patent application was filed on July 16, 2010 (12/837,984).