ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,930, issued on July 22, was assigned to MACRONIX International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory device and in-memory search method thereof" was invented by Po-Hao Tseng (Taichung, Taiwan), Tian-Cih Bo (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Feng-Min Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device and an in-memory search method thereof are provided. The memory device includes a first memory cell block, a second memory cell block, at least one search memory cell pair, and a sense amplifier. The search memory cell pair includes a first search memory cell and a second search memory cell. The first search memory cell and the s...