US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Jan. 27 for "IC memory device implementing an imply function" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,492, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"IC memory device implementing an imply function" was invented by Yun-Feng Kao (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Katherine H. Chiang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit including first and second charge-trapping devices and a control circuit. The first charge-trapping device includes a first charge-trapping structure arranged over a substrate between a first gate structure and a first channel region. The second charge-trapping device is coupled in series with the first charge-tr...