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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Toshio Sunaga, Ohtsu, JP;
Hisatada Miyatake, Ohtsu, JP;
Koji Kitamura, Shiga-ken, JP;
Hideo Asano, Machida, JP;
Kohki Noda, Fujisawa, JP;
Hiroshi Umezaki, Fujisawa, JP;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/604 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/604 ;
Abstract
The register disclosed herein includes a register block and a data writing block having non-volatile storage elements which store data output therefrom. The disclosed register further includes a data restoring block for reading data from the non-volatile storage elements. In a disclosed embodiment, the non-volatile storage elements are magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) elements.