ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,686, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Zeno Semiconductor Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Content addressable memory device having electrically floating body transistor" was invented by Benjamin S. Louie (Fremont, Calif.), Jin-Woo Han (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuniarto Widjaja (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content addressable memory cell includes a first floating body transistor and a second floating body transistor. The first floating body transistor and the second floating body transistor are electrically connected in series through a common node. The first floating body transistor and the second floating body transi...