US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Dec. 30 for "Memory device with global and local latches" (Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,150, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory device with global and local latches" was invented by Atul Katoch (Kanata, Canada) and Sahil Preet Singh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory bank with a memory cell connected to a local bit line and a word line. A first local data latch is connected to the local bit line and has an enable terminal configured to receive a first local clock signal. A word line latch is configured to latch a word line select signal, and has an enable terminal configured to receive a second loca...