ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,007, issued on June 23, was assigned to EM MICROELECTRONIC-MARIN SA (Marin, Switzerland).

"Address decoder unit for a memory cell array using logic gates" was invented by Lubomir Plavec (Brno, Czech Republic) and Yves Godat (Cornaux, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An address decoder unit (30) for a memory cell array (10), the address decoder unit (30) including an address decoder (31) including an address input (33) and a number of address outputs (34, 35, 36), the address decoder (31) being operable to select one of the address outputs (34, 35, 36) in response to receive a memory address at the address input (33); and an...