ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,088, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory device and operation method applied for data search" was invented by Po-Hao Tseng (Taichung City, Taiwan), Feng-Min Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Yu-Hsuan Lin (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device and associated operation method are provided. The operation method is applied to the memory device to determine whether a search input and in-memory data are matched. The memory device includes a memory array and a control circuit, and the memory array includes M*N memory cells. The operation method includes ...