ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,414, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Database circuit and data matching method" was invented by Yu-Hsuan Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) and Yu-Yu Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database circuit comprising data circuits and a processing circuit is provided. The data circuits are configured to receive a query data and respectively store a plurality of feature data that form at least one feature data class. The processing circuit is coupled to the data circuits, and configured to match the query data with the feature data to generate matching signals and take a fir...