ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,284, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Column select topology supporting increased throughput for writes to memory" was invented by Akshay Kumar (New Delhi) and Edward Martin McCombs Jr. (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A write circuitry may include a first write driver and at least one additional write driver for a set of bitlines coupled to bitcells of a memory; column select circuitry; a first storage element coupled to an input data pin to receive data for storing in the memory; and at least one additional storage element coupled in series with the first storage element. The fir...