US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Feb. 4 for "Method of and apparatus for refreshing memory devices" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,785, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method of and apparatus for refreshing memory devices" was invented by Ming-Yen Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Katherine H. Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes an array of word lines, and an array of memory cells configured to receive selection signals from the array of word lines. Each memory cell in the array of memory cells is connected to one or more data lines in a set of data lines. The integrated circuit also includes a read-write driver which is connected to the set of data ...