ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,617, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Bit line logic circuit and method" was invented by Shang-Chi Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yangsyu Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chiting Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jonathan Tsung-Yung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Mahmut Sinangil (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory circuit includes a control circuit, a memory cell column, first and second bit lines coupled to the memory cell column, a write circuit coupled to a first end of each of the first and second bit lines, and a switching circuit including a first NAND gate including a...