ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,609, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Circuit architecture using transistors with dynamic dual functionality for logic and embedded memory drivers" was invented by Julien Frougier (Albany, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Kangguo Cheng (Schenectady, N.Y.), Heng Wu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Min Gyu Sung (Latham, N.Y.) and Chanro Park (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention include a transistor coupled to a memory element, the memory element being in series with a first bistable resistive element that is configured to switch between a fir...