University of Hull Assigned Patent

The University of Hull, Hull Humberside, Great Britain, has been assigned a patent (11950520) developed by Kemp, Neil, Hull Humberside, Great Britain, for an “optically switchable memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of manufacturing a storage device for storing information, apparatus for storing information, an optical memristor device and a memory cell are disclosed. A method comprises providing at least one first electrode and at least one further electrode and providing each of at least one region of a first material between, and in electrical connection with, a respective first electrode and a further electrode whereby said step of providing at least one region comprises providing in the first material, a plurality of changeable particles that have charge storage capacity and at least one electrical property that is reversibly changeable responsive to absorption of incident electromagnetic radiation.”

The patent application was filed on 2019-08-19 (17/270279).