ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,030, issued on June 23, was assigned to United Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Data inversion encoding circuit, eFLASH memory device and operation method thereof" was invented by Ying-Ting Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chien Kuo Su (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Hsueh-Chen Cheng (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Cheng-Hsiao Lai (Chiayi County, Taiwan), Yuan-Hui Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Ya-Nan Mou (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a data inversion encoding circuit, an eFLASH memory device and an operation method thereof. The data inversion encoding circuit includes a count and comparison circuit, re...