ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,715, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Non-volatile 3D memory search architecture" was invented by Po-Hao Tseng (Taichung, Taiwan) and Ming-Hsiu Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile 3D memory search architecture provides for receiving searches for application to select lines and word lines of a non-volatile 3D memory array. The architecture uses two word lines per unit of information of the searches and two memory devices per unit of stored feature to search against. The architecture uses respective bit lines of the non-volatile 3D memory array as resp...