ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,592, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory array structure with dynamic differential-reference based readout scheme for computing-in-memory applications, dynamic differential-reference time-to-digital converter for computing-in-memory applications and computing method thereof" was invented by Meng-Fan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ping-Chun Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jin-Sheng Ren (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Li-Yang Hong (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ho-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic differential-reference time-to-digital converter for computing-in-memory applications is c...