NVE Notified of Grant of VMRAM Patent
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--March 20, 2007--NVE Corporation (Nasdaq: NVEC) announced
today that it has been notified by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
of the expected grant of a patent relating to Vertical Transport Magnetoresistive
Random Access Memory (VMRAM).
NVE has been notified that the patent, titled "Radial field generating
selection conductor device," will be issued today. The patent is number 7,193,286
and is the grant of a patent under the application published by the USPTO as number
2006-0022238. The new patent relates to addressing Vertical Transport MRAM arrays.
The co-inventors were an NVE researcher and Professor Jian-Gang Zhu of Carnegie
Mellon University, and the patent is assigned to NVE.
MRAM is an integrated-circuit memory which is fabricated with nanotechnology
and which uses electron spin to store data. MRAM may have the potential to combine
many of the best attributes of different types of semiconductor memories. VMRAM
is a high-density type of MRAM that employs current perpendicular to the plane
to switch spintronic memory elements. Defense Department documents have said VMRAM
could be applicable in general ultra-dense nonvolatile memory or as a hard disk
replacement.
The grant brings NVE's U.S. patent total to 41. The company has more than 100
patents worldwide issued, pending, or licensed from others. Links to the new patent
and NVE's other U.S. patents can be found at the "About NVE" section
of the company's Website (www.nve.com).
NVE is a leader in the practical commercialization of spintronics, a nanotechnology
that many experts believe represents the next generation of microelectronics.
NVE licenses its MRAM intellectual property and sells spintronic products, including
sensors and couplers, to revolutionize data sensing and transmission.
Statements used in this press release that relate to future plans, events,
or performance are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks
and uncertainties including, among others, such factors as uncertainties relating
to the grant of patents in the future, risks in the enforcement of our patents,
as well as the risk factors listed from time to time in our filings with the SEC,
including our Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports filed with the SEC.
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