ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,312, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Short circuit detection in a read/write assist capacitor of a memory" was invented by Noam Jungmann (Holon, Israel), Elazar Kachir (Tel Aviv, Israel), Bishan He (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Rajiv Joshi (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Dureseti Chidambarrao (Weston, Conn.), Baozhen Li (South Burlington, Vt.), Atsushi Ogino (Fishkill, N.Y.) and Klimentiy Shimanovich (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate and integrated circuitry on the semiconductor substrate. The integrated circuitry incl...