G11C 11/42
Using opto-electronic devices, i.e. light-emitting and photoelectric devices electrically- or optically- coupled
Official title: using opto-electronic devices, i.e. light-emitting and photoelectric devices electrically- or optically- coupled {or feedback-coupled}
G11C11/42 (Using opto-electronic devices, i.e. light-emitting and photoelectric devices electrically- or optically- coupled) appears on 90 US grants and 68 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11C- Granted patents
- 90
- Published applications
- 68
- Assignees
- 55
- Inventors
- 196
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Data storage device with light emitted memory11 Aug 2026US 12,708,052 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Light detection element, receiving device, and light sensor device26 May 2026US 12,641,914 B2TDK Corporation
- Pooled memory system enabled by monolithic in-package optical I/O3 Mar 2026US 12,567,910 B2Ayar Labs, Inc.
- Flash memory device with photon assisted programming16 Dec 2025US 12,499,937 B2Rambus Inc.
- Multidrop optical input/output module18 Nov 2025US 12,475,944 B2Rambus Inc.
- Pooled Memory System Enabled by Monolithic In-Package Optical I/O9 Jul 2026US 2026/0197094 A1Ayar Labs, Inc.
- Data storage device with light emitted memory22 Jan 2026US 2026/0026398 A1MicronTechnology, Inc.
- Optical quaternary content-addressable memory and its optical computing applications4 Sep 2025US 2025/0279141 A1Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Optically controllable mesoscopic spin order in semiconductors14 Aug 2025US 2025/0258256 A1The University of Chicago
- Receiving device, transceiver device, communication system, portable terminal device, and photodetection element19 Jun 2025US 2025/0198834 A1TDK Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Semi-conductor non-volatile optical memory device79US 3,950,738 AAgency of Industrial Science and Technology · 1976
- Three-dimensional integrated circuit with optically coupled shared memories55US 4,672,577 AHiroshima University · 1987
- Data memory device51US 4,581,716 ANippondenso Co., Ltd. · 1986
- Pooled DRAM system enabled by monolithic in-package optical I/O37US 11,233,580 B2Ayar Labs, Inc. · 2022
- Optical memory playback apparatus35US 4,190,775 AAgency of Industrial Science and Technology · 1980