US Patent Issued to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL on Aug. 19 for "Integrated circuit structure and method for operating the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,485, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit structure and method for operating the same" was invented by Yu-Yu Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Feng-Min Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The integrated circuit structure includes a substrate and a first resistive memory string over the substrate. The first resistive memory string includes memory cells, and each of the memory cells includes a word line transistor and a resistor. The word line transistor includes a channel region, a gate over the channel region, and a plurality of source/drain regions on op...