ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,120, issued on June 10, was assigned to GOWIN SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Guangzhou, China).

"Method and system for providing word addressable nonvolatile memory in a programmable logic device" was invented by Jinghui Zhu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable integrated circuit device able to be selectively programmed to perform one or more logic functions includes multiple configurable logic blocks ("LBs"), routing fabric, and a nonvolatile memory ("NVM"). While the configurable LBs are able to be selectively programmed to perform one or more logic functions, the routing fabric selectively routes information betwe...