US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 15 for "Using embedded switches for reducing capacitive loading on a memory system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,981, issued on July 15, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Using embedded switches for reducing capacitive loading on a memory system" was invented by Chia-Ta Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-En Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Sai-Hooi Yeong (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yih Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Ching Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of this description relates to a memory array. In some embodiments, the memory array includes a first memory cell coupled between a first local select line and a first local bit line, a second memory cell coupled between a second local select li...