US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Feb. 24 for "Circuit with swept voltage on bit line or bit line bar" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,216, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Circuit with swept voltage on bit line or bit line bar" was invented by Chi Lo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-En Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Ching Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hiroki Noguchi (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yih Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a sense amplifier connected to a bit line and a bit line bar, a first memory cell configured to store a data signal and selectively output the data signal on at least one of the bit line and the bit line bar in response to a word line signal, a firs...