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Grandis holds a unique, broad patent portfolio, including key fundamental and practical implementation patents, covering STT-RAM, circuit design, device integration and systems, derived from early intensive and dedicated research in spintronics. It has 38 U.S. patents issued, more than 35 U.S. patents pending, and continues to patent its technology. It licenses its IP to technology companies that design, develop and manufacture a variety of products incorporating stand-alone and embedded STT-RAM memory. Grandis has also assembled a strong international technical team with a proven track record in magnetic thin film and semiconductor memory technology. The team’s extensive experience covers spintronics, magnetics and conventional MRAM, as well as SRAM, DRAM and Flash. It offers its licensees a complete range of support services from process installation through qualification.

The following is a list of Grandis’ issued U.S. patents:

 

PAT. No.

Title

1

7,379,327

Current Driven Switching of Magnetic Storage Cells Utilizing Spin Transfer and Magnetic Memories Using Such Cells Having Enhanced Read and Write Margins

2

7,369,427

Magnetic elements with spin engineered insertion layers and MRAM devices using the magnetic elements

3

7,345,912

Method and system for providing a magnetic memory structure utilizing spin transfer

4

7,289,356

Fast magnetic memory devices utilizing spin transfer and magnetic elements used therein

5

7,286,395

Current driven switched magnetic storage cells having improved read and write margins and magnetic memories using such cells

6

7,282,755

Stress assisted current driven switching for magnetic memory applications

7

7,272,035

Current driven switching of magnetic storage cells utilizing spin transfer and magnetic memories using such cells

8

7,272,034

Current driven switching of magnetic storage cells utilizing spin transfer and magnetic memories using such cells

9

7,245,462

Magnetoresistive element having reduced spin transfer induced noise

10

7,242,048

Magnetic elements with ballistic magnetoresistance utilizing spin-transfer and an MRAM device using such magnetic elements

11

7,242,045

Spin transfer magnetic element having low saturation magnetization free layers

12

7,241,631

MTJ elements with high spin polarization layers configured for spin-transfer switching and spintronics devices using the magnetic elements

13

7,233,039

Spin transfer magnetic elements with spin depolarization layers

14

7,230,845

Magnetic devices having a hard bias field and magnetic memory devices using the magnetic devices

15

7,227,773

Magnetic element utilizing spin-transfer and half-metals and an MRAM device using the magnetic element

16

7,224,601

Oscillating-field assisted spin torque switching of a magnetic tunnel junction memory element

17

7,190,612

Circuitry for use in current switching a magnetic cell

18

7,190,611

Spin-transfer multilayer stack containing magnetic layers with resettable magnetization

19

7,187,577

Method and system for providing current balanced writing for memory cells and magnetic devices

20

7,161,829

Current confined pass layer for magnetic elements utilizing spin-transfer and an MRAM device using such magnetic elements

21

7,126,202

Spin scattering and heat assisted switching of a magnetic element

22

7,110,287

Method and system for providing heat assisted switching of a magnetic element utilizing spin transfer

23

7,106,624

Magnetic element utilizing spin transfer and an MRAM device using the magnetic element

24

7,098,494

Re-configurable logic elements using heat assisted magnetic tunneling elements

25

7,088,609

Spin barrier enhanced magneto-resistance effect element and magnetic memory using the same

26

7,057,921

Spin barrier enhanced dual magneto-resistance effect element and magnetic memory using the same

27

7,009,877

Three-terminal magneto-statically coupled spin transfer-based MRAM cell

28

6,992,359

Spin transfer magnetic element with free layers having high perpendicular anisotropy and in-plane equilibrium magnetization

29

6,985,385

Magnetic memory element utilizing spin transfer switching and storing multiple bits

30

6,967,863

Perpendicular magnetization magnetic element utilizing spin transfer

31

6,958,927

Magnetic element utilizing spin-transfer and half-metals and an MRAM device using the magnetic element

32

6,933,155

Methods for providing a sub .15 micron magnetic memory structure

33

6,920,063

Magnetic element utilizing spin transfer and an MRAM device using the magnetic element

34

6,888,742

Off-axis pinned layer magnetic element utilizing spin transfer and an MRAM device using the magnetic element

35

6,847,547

Magneto-statically coupled magnetic elements utilizing spin transfer and an MRAM device using the magnetic element

36

6,838,740

Thermally stable magnetic elements utilizing spin transfer and an MRAM device using the magnetic element

37

6,829,161

Magneto-statically coupled magnetic elements utilizing spin transfer and an MRAM device using the magnetic element

38

6,714,444

Magnetic element utilizing spin transfer and an MRAM device using the magnetic element

 

     
 
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