ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,151, issued on June 9, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method of operating memory-based device" was invented by Tuo-Hung Hou (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chih-Cheng Chang (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: generating a first sum value at least by a first resistor; generating a first shifted sum value based on the first sum value and a nonlinear function; generating a pulse number based on the first shifted sum value; and changing the first resistor based on the pulse number to adjust the...