ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,100, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Write-read circuit with a bit line multiplexer for a memory device" was invented by Mohit Gupta (Heverlee, Belgium) and Stefan Cosemans (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device with multiplexers for multiplexing write and read operations to bit lines is provided. In one aspect, a write-read circuit includes a multiplexer for multiplexing the write and read operations. The multiplexer includes a plurality of select devices, each select device being associated with one of a plurality of bit lines, and each select device including a first transis...