ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,438, issued on July 22, was assigned to iCometrue Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Logic drive based on standard commodity FPGA IC chips using non-volatile memory cells" was invented by Jin-Yuan Lee (Miaoli County, Taiwan) and Mou-Shiung Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) IC chip includes multiple first non-volatile memory cells in the FPGA IC chip, wherein the first non-volatile memory cells are configured to save multiple resulting values for a look-up table (LUT) of a programmable logic block of the FPGA IC chip, wherein the programmable logic block is configured to select...