US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Oct. 20 for "Memory device with content addressable memory units" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,685, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory device with content addressable memory units" was invented by Katherine H. Chiang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a memory device, including a plurality of content addressable memory (CAM) units arranged in rows and columns and configured to store a plurality of data states, respectively. A CAM unit of the plurality of CAM units includes a first ferroelectric memory element, a plurality of word lines extending along the rows and configured to prov...