US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Oct. 20 for "Compute-in-memory device and operating method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,676, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Compute-in-memory device and operating method" was invented by Wait-Kit Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Katherine H. Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a plurality of word lines, a bit line, a memory array, a control circuit, and a current summation circuit. The memory array includes a plurality of memory cells coupled to the bit line. Each of the plurality of memory cells includes an access transistor coupled to a corresponding word line among the plurality of word lines. The control circu...