ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,106, issued on June 2, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Storage device having latching units serially connected for in-memory arithmetic operations" was invented by Ashwin Sanjay Lele (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Win-San Khwa (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Meng-Fan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes an array of latching units and a plurality of inter-unit transmission switches. Each pair of two adjacent latching units is coupled together through an inter-unit transmission switch. Each latching unit includes a first inverter and a first transmission switch seri...