Asahi Kasei Microdevices Assigned Patent

Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11611000) developed by Sakamoto, Toshiro, Takehara, Satoshi, Yamaha, Yoshiro, and Kobayashi, Makoto, Tokyo, Japan, for “nonvolatile storage element and analog circuit provided with same.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “There is provided a nonvolatile storage element having excellent charge holding characteristics capable of reducing variations in electric characteristics and an analog circuit provided with the same. A nonvolatile storage element is provided with a charge holding region and an insulator surrounding the entire surface of the charge holding region and having halogen distributed in at least one part of a region surrounding the entire surface.”

The patent application was filed on 2017-10-03 (16/649175).