US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on June 2 for "Flexible SRAM cell assist by combining WL and selective SRAM cell supply" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,562, issued on June 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Flexible SRAM cell assist by combining WL and selective SRAM cell supply" was invented by Klimentiy Shimanovich (Ramat Gan, Israel), Elazar Kachir (Haifa, Israel), Noam Jungmann (Holon, Israel), Tomer Abraham Cohen (Binyamina, Israel), Bishan He (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Rajiv Joshi (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiment herein describe read and write assists for SRAM cells. When performing a write operation, a write assist technique can be performed on the SRAM macro where a word line (WL) for the selected row is bo...