ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,058, issued on April 8, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory device" was invented by Shih-Hung Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chun-Hsiung Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device for artificial intelligence calculation includes a memory structure, a controller chip, and a processer chip. The memory structure includes a first memory chip, and a stack of second memory chips, in which a memory density of each of the second memory chips is greater than a memory density of the first memory chip. The controller chip is electrically connected to the first memory chip and t...