ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,620, issued on June 9, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method of storing data in memories" was invented by Win-San Khwa (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jui-Jen Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jen-Chieh Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Meng-Fan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of storing an input data of a data set into a memory storage having bit cells. The method includes determining a bit value of a characterization bit in the input data. The method also includes writing each of remaining bits in the input data into one of the bit cells either as the first state or as the second st...