ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,708, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Memory device and method for reducing active power consumption thereof using address control" was invented by Chien-Yuan Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hau-Tai Shieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng Hung Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a memory device, including a memory array, a tracking circuit, a memory controller, and a word line driver. A plurality of word lines are in communication with a plurality of memory cells of the memory array. The memory controller decodes a memory address o...