US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 7 for "Compute-in-memory device and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,423, issued on July 7, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Compute-in-memory device and method" was invented by Chieh Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-En Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Ching Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wen-Chang Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yih Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an integrated circuit (IC) device includes an active semiconductor layer, a circuitry formed within the active semiconductor layer, a region including conductive layers formed in a back-end-of-line (BEOL) layer above the active semiconductor layer, and a memory module for...