The Regents of University of California/University of Notre Dame du Lac Assigned Patent

The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA, and University of Notre Dame du Lac, South Bend, IN, has been assigned a patent (11532355) developed by Ni, Kai, Notre Dame, IN, Datta, Suman, South Bend, IN, and Kummel, Andrew, San Diego, CA, for “non-volatile multi-level cell memory using a ferroelectric superlattice and related systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An N-bit non-volatile multi-level memory cell (MLC) can include a lower electrode and an upper electrode spaced above the lower electrode. N ferroelectric material layers can be vertically spaced apart from one another between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, wherein N is at least 2 and at least one dielectric material layer having a thickness of less than 20 nm can be located between the N ferroelectric material layers.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-09-25 (17/032847).