US Patent Issued to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL on Dec. 9 for "Three-dimensional memory array, memory searching engine circuit and encoding method of the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,258, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Three-dimensional memory array, memory searching engine circuit and encoding method of the same" was invented by Yu-Hsuan Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) and Po-Hao Tseng (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional memory array comprising a plurality of NAND strings. Each NAND string is configured to store a storage data having multiple bits and receive a searching input having multiple bits. Each bit of the storage data and the searching input is of a bit value "0", a bit value "1", a wildcard bit or an invalid bit. At least one...