ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,308, issued on April 22, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory device and method for operating the same" was invented by Kuang Ting Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Peijiun Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Ching-Wei Wu (Nantou County, Taiwan) and Feng-Ming Chang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device is provided, including an array of bit cells and a set of tracking cells. The set of tracking cells is arranged adjacent to the array of bit cells along a first direction. The set of tracking cells includes a set of first tracking cells configured to perform a read trackin...