ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,790, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory array connections" was invented by Chieh Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-En Huang (Xinfeng Township, Taiwan), Chun-Ying Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Ching Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yih Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Rose Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yao-Jen Yang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Jonathan Tsung-Yung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a substrate, a first sense amplifier disposed on the substrate, a first word line driver disposed on the substrate and situated adjacent the first sense amplifier in the...