US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW on Sept. 23 for "Multiport memory cells including stacked active layers" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,276, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Multiport memory cells including stacked active layers" was invented by Shairfe Muhammad Salahuddin (Kessel Lo, Belgium) and Julien Ryckaert (Schaerbeek, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiport memory cell for register files is disclosed. Vertically stacked top and bottom tier of the memory cell are electrically interconnected through a pair of vias and comprise each an active device layer and a metal layer stack. The memory cell is partitioned to have a latching circuit and at least one write port located in the bottom tier and at least two read ports ...