ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,706, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MACRONIX International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"In memory searching device" was invented by Po-Hao Tseng (Taichung, Taiwan) and Shao Yu Fang (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in memory searching device, including multiple first memory cell strings, a controller, and a sensing circuit, is provided. The first memory cell strings are commonly coupled to a first common bit line. Each of the first memory strings includes multiple first data storage layers. The first data storage layers respectively include multiple first memory cell pairs. The first memory cell pairs are resp...