ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,170, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Computing system and method of operation thereof" was invented by Po-Hao Tseng (Taichung, Taiwan), Ming-Hsiu Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tian-Cih Bo (Zhubei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3D search engine receives searches for application to word lines of a nonvolatile memory array. The engine uses two word lines per bit of information of the searches and two memory devices per bit of stored feature to search against, optionally enabling don't care and/or wildcard encoding. The engine uses respective bit lines of the nonvolatile memo...