US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on April 14 for "System and method for extending lifetime of memory device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,145, issued on April 14, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"System and method for extending lifetime of memory device" was invented by Yung-Huei Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan), Pei-Chun Liao (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Jian-Hong Lin (Yunlin, Taiwan), Dawei Heh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wen Hsien Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of extending a lifetime of a memory cell is provided. The method includes detecting, by a memory controller, whether a memory cell has failed or not; repairing, by the memory controller, the memory cell by applying a first pulse having a first ampli...