ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,915, issued on March 18, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit structure and method for forming and operating the same" was invented by Dai-Ying Lee (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Teng-Hao Yeh (Zhubei, Taiwan), Wei-Chen Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Rachit Dobhal (New Taipei, Taiwan), Zefu Zhao (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chee-Wee Liu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The integrated circuit structure includes a substrate and a memory cell over the substrate. The memory cell includes a channel layer, a first doped region, a second doped region, a first ferroelectric layer, and a first gate ...