ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,804, issued on April 22, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory devices, semiconductor devices, and methods of operations a memory device" was invented by Perng-Fei Yuh (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Yih Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Meng-Sheng Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jui-Che Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan), Ku-Feng Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Wei Lin (Taichung, Taiwan), Keh-Jeng Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chansyun David Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shao-Ting Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shao-Yu Chou (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Philex Ming-Yan Fan (Tainan, Taiwan), Yoshitaka Yamauchi (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tzu-Hsien Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* ...