US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 22 for "Compute-in-memory cell" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,252, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Compute-in-memory cell" was invented by Hidehiro Fujiwara (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Haruki Mori (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Chang Zhao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Fu Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Nail Etkin Can Akkaya (San Jose, Calif.) and Mahmut Sinangil (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell, a first logic element, a second logic element, and a third logic element. The first memory cell is configured to store a first bit at a first node, and the second memory cell is configured to...