ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,190, issued on June 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit structure and fabrication thereof" was invented by Chia-Che Chung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Yi Cheng (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chee-Wee Liu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IC structure comprises an MTJ cell, a transistor, a first word line, and a second word line. The transistor is electrically coupled to the MTJ cell. The transistor comprises a first gate terminal and a second gate terminal independent of the first gate terminal. The first word line ...