ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,912, issued on July 28, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Memory circuit arrangement for accurate and secure read" was invented by Vikas Rana (Noida, India) and Arpit Vijayvergia (Bhopal, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to arranging user data memory cells and test memory cells in a configurable memory array that can perform both differential and single ended read operations during memory start-up and normal memory use, respectively. Different arrangements of the user data memory cells and the test memory cells in the memory array result in increased effectiveness ...