ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,317, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Column multiplexer circuitry" was invented by Lalit Gupta (Cupertino, Calif.), Fakhruddin Ali Bohra (San Jose, Calif.), Shri Sagar Dwivedi (San Jose, Calif.) and Vidit Babbar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations described herein are related to a device having memory architecture having multiple bitcell arrays. The device may include column multiplexer circuitry coupled to the memory architecture via multiple bitlines for read access operations. The column multiplexer circuitry may perform read access operations in the mul...