ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,179, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Fly bitline design for pseudo triple port memory" was invented by Sunil Sharma (Bangalore, India), Arun Babu Pallerla (San Diego) and Sung Son (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory includes a bitcell on a substrate, having a bitcell width and a bitcell height and a first access transistor and a second access transistor. The memory includes a first metal layer patterned to form a first pair of wordlines, including a first wordline coupled to a gate of the first access transistor and a second wordline coupled to a gate of the second access transis...