Patent 7838862 was granted and assigned to Samsung on November, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A phase random access memory including a plurality of access transistors, each access transistor including a drain region and a phase-changeable film shared by the plurality of access transistors. The phase-changeable film is connected to a bitline through a first electrode and connected to each respective drain region through at least one of a plurality of second electrodes.