ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,848, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit device, memory cell and method" was invented by Yen Lin Chung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kao-Cheng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Pei-Yuan Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Chen Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Tse Chou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien Hui Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Ning Tu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shang Lin Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Che Chung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Chi Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei Min Chan (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yen-Huei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inte...