ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,194, issued on May 26, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory device and data latching method" was invented by Sanjeev Kumar Jain (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory cell is configured to store data and operate in an operational state or a sleep state. A first set of transistors is configured to transfer data from the data sensing node of the memory cell to a data latch node, in response to the memory cell being in the operational state. A second set of transistors is configured to latch the data at the data latch node, in response to the memory cell being in the operational ...