US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Feb. 3 for "Multi-level drive of content addressable memory (CAM) cells" (Maryland, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,182, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Multi-level drive of content addressable memory (CAM) cells" was invented by Bouchaib Cherif (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Michael Anthony Tomlinson (Manchester, Md.), Michelle A Williams (Laurel, Md.), Nishant Zachariah (Woodstock, Md.), Philippe Pouliquen (Baltimore) and Andreas Andreou (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content addressable memory (CAM) circuit includes a word line driver that incorporates a digital-to-analog converters (DAC), which enables the CAM circuit to store an n-bit value only with n CAM cells. The CAM circuit in...