ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,173, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Memory circuit" was invented by Tatsushi Otsuka (Yokohama, Japan), Yuya Shigenobu (Yokohama, Japan) and Tokushi Yamaguchi (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory circuit includes: a plurality of memory parts, each of which includes a plurality of first memory cells and a second memory cell that is accessed when one of the first memory cells is defective; a plurality of first memory control parts, each of which is configured to control access to a corresponding one of the plurality of memory parts based on a first access request addressing the ...