ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,130, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Content addressable memory for large search words" was invented by Hang-Ting Lue (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory array is arranged to store data words in respective sets of TCAM cells, where each TCAM cell is configured to store ternary states of a bit of the stored word. A circuit to select a set of TCAM cells in the set of TCAM cells, such as decoders and drivers for word lines, bit lines, block select gates. A circuit to apply an input search word to the TCAM cells in the selected set of TCAM cells, such as a search...