ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,705, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Non-volatile memory" was invented by Seiji Takenaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are disposed second and third transistors whose gates are connected to each other, and first and fourth transistors whose gates are connected to each other. Sources of the first to fourth transistors are connected to each other. A read operation is performed in a state where drain current is supplied to the fourth transistor, and drain current larger than that of the fourth transistor is supplied to the third transistor. In the read operation, a signal associated...