ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,607, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Bipolar selector with independently tunable threshold voltages" was invented by Sheng-Chih Lai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chung-Te Lin (Tainan, Taiwan), Min Cao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Randy Osborne (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a bipolar selector having independently tunable threshold voltages, as well as a memory cell comprising the bipolar selector and a memory array comprising the memory cell. In some embodiments, the bipolar selector comprises a...