US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 5 for "Memory device, assist cell and double assist cell for a memory device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,437, issued on May 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Memory device, assist cell and double assist cell for a memory device" was invented by Wolfgang Penth (Holzgerlingen, Germany), Jan Niklas Stegmaier (Sindelfingen, Germany), Rolf Sautter (Bondorf, Germany) and Silke Penth (Holzgerlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device comprising at least one memory bank is provided and comprises a two-dimensional array of memory cells, a plurality of local bit lines connecting all memory cells in a first dimension of the two-dimensional array, a plurality of word lines connecting all mem...